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The foundation of Korean public administration and policy / Keun Namkoong and In Chul Kim -- The evolution of Korean public administration and policy / Young-chool Choi -- Presidential leadership and administration / Young-Ho Hwang -- Government and public organizations / Sangmook Kim -- Civil service system and personnel administration / Kyung-ho Cho -- Public finance and financial administration / Changhoon Jung -- Administrative culture / Heungsik Park -- Performance management and evaluation / Cheol H.Oh -- Public sector reform / M. Jae Moon -- Welfare state and social policy / Huck-ju Kwon -- Environmental policy / Sun-Jin Yun -- Informatization policy / Youngmi Kim -- Regional development and urban policy / Jun Koo -- Toward the theorization of Korean public administration and policy / Kilkon Koh and Keun Namkoong.

AbstractThis article introduces the concept of cognitive social structures to public administration and policy scholars. Cognitive social structures are the perceptions, or mental maps, actors hold of the relationships that exist among the members of their network. These perceptions and their accuracy have implications for actor behavior, decisions, and outcomes. The literature on network cognitions has developed in the fields of psychology and organization studies but has yet to be applied in public administration and policy. We provide an overview of cognitive social structure research. We then demonstrate the theoretical and practical implications cognitive social structures hold for our field by examining applications in two research areas—implementation and leadership. We argue that using a network cognition perspective can help researchers and practitioners to better explain and pursue important organizational and interorganizational phenomena. We hope this article fosters new dialogue on the role of network cognitions in public administration and policy.

Hugh T. Miller, Postmodern Public PolicyGoktug Morcol, A New Mind for Policy Analysis: Toward a Post‐Newtonian and Postpositivist Epistemology and MethodologyMichael W. Spicer, Public Administration and the State: A Postmodern Perspective

We systematically explore differences between the policy analysis and public administration/management approaches to public service education. From the literature, we identify four aspects of public service education that may differ between public administration/management and policy analysis: the students who enter each kind of program, the norms students gain through professional socialization in each approach, the career paths followed by graduates of each kind of program, and program graduates career satisfaction. We develop several hypotheses about differences in applicant pools, student socialization, and the careers of graduates of public administration and policy analysis programs. Finally, we discuss the importance of testing these hypotheses: why alternative findings might be expected and implications of tests of these hypotheses for public service education.

This paper traces the evolution of the application of the complexity sciences in the literature of public administration and public policy. A four stage evolutionary model is used to track the development of this literature. The evolution of the literature has now reached a third evolutionary stage. This third stage is a proliferant stage in the development of the literature in which applications and knowledge production has increased dramatically.