The Government and Civil Society Collaboration against COVID-19 in South Korea: A Single or Multiple Actor Play?
This study examines, from a collaborative governance perspective, the public policy process of South Korea in responding to the global health pandemic. In many countries, attention has been focused primarily on governmental capacity and political leadership in containing the COVID-19 pandemic. In So...
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doaj-154c6d5af5e24ee099083207e05dfdf62021-09-22T06:13:15ZengDe GruyterNonprofit Policy Forum2154-33482021-01-0112116518710.1515/npf-2020-0051The Government and Civil Society Collaboration against COVID-19 in South Korea: A Single or Multiple Actor Play?Jeong Bok Gyo0Kim Sung-Ju1Public Administration, Kean University College of Business and Public Administration, 1000 Morris Ave, Union, New Jersey, USASocial Work, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USAThis study examines, from a collaborative governance perspective, the public policy process of South Korea in responding to the global health pandemic. In many countries, attention has been focused primarily on governmental capacity and political leadership in containing the COVID-19 pandemic. In South Korea, however, the role of civil society as a collaborative partner to government is especially important. To analyze the comprehensive and substantive nature of government-civil society collaboration, this study assesses the response to COVID-19 along two dimensions: the level of civil society involvement in governance, and the stage in public policy development. The study reveals that the South Korean government was a coordinator of multiple actors and multiple sectors of society, including civil society, and that all three facets of civil society as described by Edwards (2004), were involved: associational life, civility, and engagement in the public sphere.https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2020-0051covid-19civil societysouth koreagovernment and civil society collaborationgovernancepublic policy process |
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The Government and Civil Society Collaboration against COVID-19 in South Korea: A Single or Multiple Actor Play? |
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The Government and Civil Society Collaboration against COVID-19 in South Korea: A Single or Multiple Actor Play? |
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Nonprofit Policy Forum |
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This study examines, from a collaborative governance perspective, the public policy process of South Korea in responding to the global health pandemic. In many countries, attention has been focused primarily on governmental capacity and political leadership in containing the COVID-19 pandemic. In South Korea, however, the role of civil society as a collaborative partner to government is especially important. To analyze the comprehensive and substantive nature of government-civil society collaboration, this study assesses the response to COVID-19 along two dimensions: the level of civil society involvement in governance, and the stage in public policy development. The study reveals that the South Korean government was a coordinator of multiple actors and multiple sectors of society, including civil society, and that all three facets of civil society as described by Edwards (2004), were involved: associational life, civility, and engagement in the public sphere. |
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covid-19 civil society south korea government and civil society collaboration governance public policy process |
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