우리나라 대통령직인수위원회에 관한 탐색적 연구: 정부별 인수위 인적 구성을 중심으로

Abstract

This study explored the following three topics for members of the presidential transition committee; the characteristics of members of the presidential transition committee, the career path of members after serving in the committee, and whether the transition committee members and the new government cabinet were linked. The characteristics of the committee members depended on the socioeconomic context and the mission given by the president-elect to the transition committee. The Kim Dae-Jung presidential transition committee, which was launched in the wake of the 1998 Asian financial crisis, and the Moon Jae-In presidential transition committee, which was launched after the impeachment of President Park Geun-Hye, consisted mainly of former and current lawmakers. However, the presidential transition committees of Roh Moo-Hyun, Lee Myung-Bak, and Park Geun-Hye, which were launched in a relatively stable situation, consisted of professors, researchers, and entrepreneurs. The Kim Dae-Jung presidential transition committee, which served as a transitional government to overcome the financial crisis, was composed mainly of politicians, but the Roh Moo-Hyun presidential transition committee, which served as an institution for the planning or state affairs, was composed mainly of scholars. After serving in the committee, the members who were mainly politicians or scholars were appointed ministers in the new cabinet but government officials, without exceptions, were appointed ministers for the Ministry of Economy and Finance and vice-minister positions. Finally, in order to find out whether the transition committee and the new cabinet are linked, this study analyzed whether the president nominated ministers or vice ministers from the transition committee members in the first year of his/her term. Few committee members were appointed ministers or vice-ministers in the Roh Moo-Hyun government whereas the Park Geun-Hye and the Kim Dae-Jung governments appointed relatively more. The Lee Myung-Bak government also did not mainly appoint the transition committee members for the positions but it should be noted that for the economic field the members were appointed in his first year.