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dc.contributor.authorJung, Chang Sung
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-25T09:59:44Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-05
dc.description.abstractThis research focuses on agencification and quangocratisation (AQ) through a comparison of the experiences of South Korea and the UK. Although a number of studies of AQ have been produced recently, these reforms remain inadequately understood. Since AQ involves the structural disaggregation of administrative units from existing departments, executive agencies and quangos have distinct characteristics which are quite different from ordinary core departments. There are a number of factors which influence these changes; and this thesis explores nine existing theories which are available to explain these phenomena. Case studies are presented of Tate Modern in the UK and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), which are carefully analysed to examine the validity of those nine arguments. Although cultural agencies, which show some unique features, have become increasingly an essential part of the national economy, they have scarcely been researched from the viewpoint of public policy. This thesis endeavours to explore distinctive characteristics of this policy area; and moreover, it examines the diverse variables which have an impact on policy formation and its results through the process of comparison of arguments. The major tasks of this thesis are to investigate the applicability of the nine arguments and to weigh their merits. As a corollary of this comprehensiveness, it examines the whole public sectors of both countries, in order to show the broader picture and to understand the processes of changes and their backgrounds. More profoundly, similarities and differences between both countries are compared from both macro and micro perspectives. At the same time, the results of AQ are analysed through the comparison of outputs or outcomes before and after these changes, with a view to exploring whether their rationales are appropriate. Furthermore, it also examines the institutional constraints which influence not only the change of agencies but also their performances. Besides which, it seeks to find strategies for overcoming these constraints. This thesis adopts systematic and comprehensive approaches regarding basic concepts and data. It draws on theories of comparative research, the scope of the public sector, the classification and analysis of agencies and quangos, and theories underlying the detailed components of each argument and epistemological assumptions. Therefore, it suggests various aspects which enable us to broaden our understanding of the changes within the public sector; and to generate practical understanding to inform real world reform.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/15930
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Exeteren_GB
dc.rightsThis thesis is available for Library use on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgment.en_GB
dc.subjectAgencificationen_GB
dc.subjectQuangocratisationen_GB
dc.subjectTate Modernen_GB
dc.subjectQuango reformen_GB
dc.subjectNational Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arten_GB
dc.subjectNew Public managementen_GB
dc.subjectRational Policy makingen_GB
dc.subjectTate Galleryen_GB
dc.subjectCultural administrationen_GB
dc.subjectart administrationen_GB
dc.subjectpolicy transferen_GB
dc.subjectExecutive agenciesen_GB
dc.subjectdepoliticisationen_GB
dc.subjectHistorical institutionalismen_GB
dc.subjectRational choice institutionalismen_GB
dc.subjectsociological institutionalismen_GB
dc.subjectNew institutionalismen_GB
dc.subjecthard institutionsen_GB
dc.subjectideasen_GB
dc.subjectlesson drawingen_GB
dc.subjectNDPBsen_GB
dc.subjectcase studyen_GB
dc.subjectMost Different Sytem Designen_GB
dc.titleAgencification and Quangocratisation of Cultural Organisations in the U.K. and South Korea: Theory and Policyen_GB
dc.typeThesis or dissertationen_GB
dc.date.available2014-11-25T09:59:44Z
dc.contributor.advisorMassey, Andrew
dc.publisher.departmentPoliticsen_GB
dc.type.degreetitlePhD in Politicsen_GB
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_GB
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_GB


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