Transparency in Local Governments in Korea

Abstract

Government transparency is considered as a good indicator of good governance by enhancing the trust and accountability and reducing corruptions, thus enabling citizen participation. However, one of the challenges is its difficulty to measure the level of transparency. Unlike the transparency measured for the country level governments, this study focuses on identifying multi-dimensional determinants that contribute to measure transparency of local governments. We developed the TOES framework to model the determinants for the local government transparency, and present the data collection and integration, and regression model to identify significant factors for transparency.