Essay On Absm In South Korea

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Corruption has long been a concern for all members of society. In theory, the practice of reconciling corrupt practise through the employment of PEA would allow a shift towards incorporating the wider concerns of society through the consideration of interests and the redistribution of power. Incorporating methods of ‘good governance’ into anti-corruption strategies are not only necessary to forge accountability in a corrupt society, they are central to incorporating the voice of citizens in the political realm. PEA should be adaptive to ongoing change in the political process, in order to create a better understanding of political power (Nunberg et al: 2010). Implementing the ABSM helped to reconcile calls from scholars, policy makers and …show more content…

Assuming that the state-business relationship can potentially indicate corruption, the two cases I have illustrated show that this could go either way. The case of South Korea shows the influence of the state over the economy. In contrast, the outcome of the ABSM shows that the most powerful politicians in the stakeholder process had little influence or control over the deliberation process. The, the ABSM allows us to see the element of political capture and the economic control over the state. Working in the context of society to govern the outcomes a reform process is crucial, as it helps us understand the importance of societal forces by incorporating them into the institutional process. Yet the ABSM performs political analysis void of the wider historical and societal processes which govern outcomes, assuming that bias is accounted in the deliberation process between stakeholders. The employment of political economic analysis, however, can never assume that biases will be accounted for, but rather it should have a theoretical applicability to uncover biases and seek to rectify them in the

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