Policy Network and the Role of Government: A Case of Selecting a Radioactive Waste Management Site in South Korea = Policy Network and the Role of Government: A Case of Selecting a Radioactive Waste Management Site in South Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Many people thought that government had to intervene in social problems from a rational model perspective. However, these approaches often failed to look at the influence of the context on actors as well as the interaction between actors and institution. Accordingly, it introduces theories of the state and policy network and applies those to the case of selecting a radioactive waste management site in South Korea, depending mainly on literature review. The case analysis shows that the Korean government has transformed its strategy from game management to network structuring, because game management strategy is no longer effective when the government loses trust. At the conclusion, it suggests that it is time for Korean bureaucrats to deal with individual actors within the network and to manage the network itself.