Abstract:In this article we analyze the impacts of a hierarchical administrative tradition on new governance in contemporary South Korea, focusing on ground-level practices of the local network governance in supporting settlements of North Korean refugees. By employing an interpretive approach that seeks to decenter governance in terms of diverse and contingent actions of policy actors against the background of distinct traditions, the study attempts to explain ways in which network governance unfolds in everyday life. Despite the institutional transition from "government to (new) governance," a deeply rooted hierarchical tradition is entangled with relatively new democratic tradition, causing unintended policy outcomes at the ground level in generating confusion and resistance among frontline policy actors. As a result, new governance can be an empty rallying cry unless policymakers and practitioners take the meaning of bottom-up seriously.

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治理中认真“自下而上”：以地方治理网络支持朝鲜难民在韩国安置为例

摘要：在本文中，我们分析了等级行政传统对当代韩国新治理的影响，重点关注地方网络治理在支持朝鲜难民安置方面的基层实践。通过采用一种解释性方法，该方法旨在根据不同传统背景下政策参与者的多样化和偶然行动来分散治理，该研究试图解释网络治理在日常生活中展开的方式。尽管从“政府到（新）治理”的制度转变，根深蒂固的等级传统与相对较新的民主传统纠缠在一起，在基层造成意想不到的政策结果，在一线政策行动者之间产生混乱和抵制。因此，