지방차원의 정책혁신 확산과 시간: 지방행정정보공개조례의 사례 연구

Abstract

This paper discusses the impact of time factor on the policy innovations of the local government, focusing on the case of the diffusion process of the local administrative information disclosure act. The analytical result shows that the diffusion pattern of the local acts as policy innovations can be characterized as quasi-reviving diffusion. It also reveals that the decision and time to adopt the act of the upper-tier local government are important factors for intrajurisdictional diffusion of the act. This paper vefies that there is a close relationship between time and the diffusion pattern. Of course, time is not the only factor explaining the diffusion pattern of local policies across local governments, which can be corroborated by the fact that the diffusion trends of the local act vary depending on the adoption statuses of the upper governments. Nonetheless, this paper intends to emphasize that adequate concern should be paid to time factor in dealing with local policy diffusion issue.