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A Study on the Evolution of Social Service Policy : By the Path Dependence and Path Evolution

  • Chung, Sae Hee (Department of social welfare, Kwangwoon Academy of Advanced Studies, Kwangwoon University) ;
  • Lim, Ahn Na (Glocal Education Center, KwangWoon University)
  • Received : 2019.12.24
  • Accepted : 2020.01.02
  • Published : 2020.03.31
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Abstract

This study intended to analyze whether the system of voucher system, which was introduced as a policy tool to expand social services, was dependent or evolving through the research methodology of historical institutionalism. The voucher system is being introduced to emphasize the user's focus in the existing supplier-centered service provision system, but problems with the existing system have been found so far. We found that despite the shift in welfare paradigm from the remaining welfare supply to universal welfare in the past, the company was partially following the existing supplier-centered social service system. However, We found that new instruments for establishing legal systems and the path evolution factors are now being developed and matured within the voucher system. In other words, it was possible to predict that the voucher system would become more positive and mature in the future through logical changes in the system. Based on the results of the analysis of the voucher system, policy suggestions for policy values and objectives that were initially oriented toward the system were presented.

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