본 연구는 다른 사회과학 분야들에 비해 비교적 뒤늦게 시민사회에 대한 관심이 증대하고 있는 행정학 분야를 중심으로 시민사회론의 함의를 이론적으로 고찰한다. 우선 기존 사회과학 제분야에서의 시민사회론을 종속변수로서의 시민사회, 독립변수로서의 시민사회로 대별하여 검토한다. 이어서 행정학 분야에서 지금까지 진행된 시민사회 연구가 주로 집중해 온 핵심적 주제들을 분석하고, 행정학적 시민사회론의 중심적 내용은 정부와 시민사회 간의 동반자관계(partnership), 그리고 그러한 동반자관계의 제도화로서의 거버넌스 체제를 근간으로 한 정부-시민사회 관계론이 되어야 한다고 주장한다. 나아가 본 논문은 행정학적 시민사회론, 즉 정부-시민사회 관계론을 더욱 발전시키기 위해 연구되어야 할 네 가지 邊境的 주제들이 기존의 행정학 분야들과 어떻게 연관되는지를 고찰한다.
본 연구는 다른 사회과학 분야들에 비해 비교적 뒤늦게 시민사회에 대한 관심이 증대하고 있는 행정학 분야를 중심으로 시민사회론의 함의를 이론적으로 고찰한다. 우선 기존 사회과학 제분야에서의 시민사회론을 종속변수로서의 시민사회, 독립변수로서의 시민사회로 대별하여 검토한다. 이어서 행정학 분야에서 지금까지 진행된 시민사회 연구가 주로 집중해 온 핵심적 주제들을 분석하고, 행정학적 시민사회론의 중심적 내용은 정부와 시민사회 간의 동반자관계(partnership), 그리고 그러한 동반자관계의 제도화로서의 거버넌스 체제를 근간으로 한 정부-시민사회 관계론이 되어야 한다고 주장한다. 나아가 본 논문은 행정학적 시민사회론, 즉 정부-시민사회 관계론을 더욱 발전시키기 위해 연구되어야 할 네 가지 邊境的 주제들이 기존의 행정학 분야들과 어떻게 연관되는지를 고찰한다.
Compared with other social science disciplines such as political science and sociology, public administration is relatively a late-comer in the growing literature on civil society. This paper probes theoretical and methodological implications of civil society for public administration with a view to...
Compared with other social science disciplines such as political science and sociology, public administration is relatively a late-comer in the growing literature on civil society. This paper probes theoretical and methodological implications of civil society for public administration with a view to developing an effective research strategy and a distinct research agenda that public administration scholars can utilize in their study of civil society. The paper first assesses the existing works on civil society in political science and sociology according to a binary classificatory scheme, i.e., civil society as a dependent variable vs. civil society as an independent variable. Then, it turns to public administration and summarizes the existing research on civil society as 1) conceptual and theoretical reviews; 2) investigations that place civil society as either a dependent or an independent variable, which therefore are in essence similar to the existing political science and sociological works on civil society; and 3) various "new governance" studies that place government-civil society relations as a dependent variable and focus on public-private partnership and collaboration. The central argument of this paper is that public administration experts should strategically focus on conceptualizing, theorizing, and analyzing diverse types of government-civil society relations and various forms of governance arrangements involving multisectoral actors, processes, and institutions. This paper also briefly discusses how the study of civil society can stimulate, transform, redefine, and reinvigorate various subfields of public administration, such as comparative administration and policy, historical institutionalism, international administration, and organizational studies. The paper concludes with some reflections on how and why public administration specialists, relative to other social scientists, can make more distinct and significant conceptual and theoretical contributions to the rapidly-expanding literature of civil society.
Compared with other social science disciplines such as political science and sociology, public administration is relatively a late-comer in the growing literature on civil society. This paper probes theoretical and methodological implications of civil society for public administration with a view to developing an effective research strategy and a distinct research agenda that public administration scholars can utilize in their study of civil society. The paper first assesses the existing works on civil society in political science and sociology according to a binary classificatory scheme, i.e., civil society as a dependent variable vs. civil society as an independent variable. Then, it turns to public administration and summarizes the existing research on civil society as 1) conceptual and theoretical reviews; 2) investigations that place civil society as either a dependent or an independent variable, which therefore are in essence similar to the existing political science and sociological works on civil society; and 3) various "new governance" studies that place government-civil society relations as a dependent variable and focus on public-private partnership and collaboration. The central argument of this paper is that public administration experts should strategically focus on conceptualizing, theorizing, and analyzing diverse types of government-civil society relations and various forms of governance arrangements involving multisectoral actors, processes, and institutions. This paper also briefly discusses how the study of civil society can stimulate, transform, redefine, and reinvigorate various subfields of public administration, such as comparative administration and policy, historical institutionalism, international administration, and organizational studies. The paper concludes with some reflections on how and why public administration specialists, relative to other social scientists, can make more distinct and significant conceptual and theoretical contributions to the rapidly-expanding literature of civil society.
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