A Structural Analysis of the Difference of Central and Local Public Servants' Cognitions of Governance
Authors:   Asia-Europe Perspective Association, Jun Youngsang , Hyun Keun 
Published: June 2018

Governance is participated many major actors who are citizens, NGOs, stakeholders, and Governments. Governments are a ideal being but do not real act and direct act. So, real acts of governments are done the public officials who are in governments and compose governments. And Governments are classified central governments and local governments by the range and level of governments. Therefore, The type and level of actors participated in governance classifies by the type and level of governments. And the actors whom the public officials doing governments’ real act interact with and their participation level are changed because of that, and the officials’ attitudes about the actors may be different. After all, the recognitions of the official groups are different between the central government and local governments. Analyzing this difference contributes to build correct attitudes of the officials about governance, and to succeed the governance system. For this analyzing, The survey are executed into the public officials of the central and local government. Survey targets are Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy in the central government, and Dongdaemun-gu office, Chungju city hall, and Hongcheon Country office in local governments. The exogenous latent variables used in analyzing are the following: 1) individual variables are awareness, experience, education &learning, and socialization, 2) organizational variables are the organizational culture, organizational environment, and organizational structure of organization and the head’s leadership of an organization. The endogenous latent variables used are effectiveness of governance system, importance of the public servant's role, responsibility, and degree of support. As analyses results, the recognition difference between the central government and the local are appeared distinctly. the central public officials groups have a relative stronger recognitions of individual variables than the local public officials but the local public officials groups have a relative stronger recognition of organizational variables than them. In path invariance model, organization variables besides individual variables more influence the endogenous latent variables in the central governmental officials groups than the local governmental officials groups. But education &learning factors more influence the endogenous latent variables in the local governmental officials groups than the central governmental officials groups. Seeing means of the endogenous latent variables, the effectiveness and the degree of support are relatively lower in the central governmental officials groups than the local governmental officials groups but the importance of the public servant’s roles are relatively lower in the local governmental officials groups than the central governmental officials groups. The central government officials are relatively more negative about the relation of the exteral environments, approval of bureaucracy limit, stakeholders participation, and sharing authority and information, and effectiveness and degree of support variables are appeared lower. This implies that the relation of the central government officials and NGOs that is main actors in governance are not cooperative but check and criticism. And They have not experienced the outcomes of collaborative work with NGOs. Also, the repulsion of sharing the authorities and informations make worse recognitions. the central governmental officials may be appeared the repulsion over the deprivation about sharing the authorities and the informations with actors who have criticized them and held in check.