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Revisiting the Role of Bureaucrats in Pension Policy-making: The Case of South Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2013

Won Sub Kim  and
Young Jun Choi
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Abstract

This article aims to provide an understanding of the dynamics of pension politics in South Korea with a particular focus on the role of bureaucrats. In order to explain the reforms, this research will closely examine how the expertise and legitimacy of civil servants, together with their institutional positioning, have affected their power and role in the policy-making process. This article will argue that bureaucrats, particularly the welfare bureaucracy, attained their major reform goals by associating and competing with other political actors in two major reforms.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , April 2014 , pp. 264 - 289
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 2013 

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Won Sub Kim is Associate Professor at Korea University. Contact email: [email protected].

Young Jun Choi (corresponding author) is Associate Professor at Korea University. Contact email: [email protected].

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