Political Leadership in Korea by Suh Dae-Sook;Lee Chae-Jin; & Chae-Jin Lee

Author:Suh, Dae-Sook;Lee, Chae-Jin; & Chae-Jin Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2015-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

The age variable is somewhat associated with role perceptions as shown in table 18, but the distribution of responses does not yield a clear interpretation. The only notable exception is a rising and then falling correlation between age differences and emphasis on public policy formulation. As ages increase from the thirties to the forties, the number of officials who found their primary administrative role in the decision of public policies increases; once the oldest age group is reached, the number tapers off considerably.

The differences in formal academic achievement did not change the bureaucrats’ perception of their roles, but those who obtained graduate degrees were more interested in policy formulation and less concerned with program execution than were their peers. More important to varying role perceptions was the specialization of their college education. The humanists, compared with social and natural scientists, were much more assertive about their role in determining developmental goals, but less preoccupied with policy formulation and program implementation. Since the humanists were educated in the broad subjects of the humanities, they might feel more comfortable and competent in dealing with values and priorities of development than with the technical aspects of public policies and administrative programs. Likewise, the administrative generalists were more interested in goal-setting roles than the functional specialists were.

No statistically significant relationship emerges between military experience and perception of administrative role. Compared with career civil servants, however, ex-military bureaucrats were less interested in program execution, but more interested in policy formulation. It must be added that both groups of bureaucrats were equally concerned with the establishment of developmental goals. The bureaucrats who retired from professional military service were less interested in goal-setting roles, and more interested in program implementation, than were those of nonprofessional military background.

The administrative specialties in which the bureaucrats were engaged affected their views of their roles. Those who were involved in economic, extractive, and regulative functions were strongly committed to a goal-setting role, and less interested in policy formulation, than were those whose administrative responsibilities were in symbolic, distributive, and technological areas. On the other hand, those in economic, regulative, and symbolic functions were more seriously concerned with program execution than with other functional specialists. The distribution of role perceptions is similar for those engaged in economic and regulative functions; a similar pattern was found for the bureaucrats with distributive and technological responsibilities.

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