규제성과평가지표 개발 및 적용 방안에 관한 연구 = A Study on the Development and Utilization of Regulatory Performance Indicators

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The experiences of the OECD countries have revealed that the quality management of government regulations has played a crucial role in determining national competitiveness and the quality of lives. To successfully manage the quality of regulations, the first task is to assess the current performance of government regulations. However, in case of Korea, we have lacked a general model and indicators of regulatory performance. In particular, we have no systematic description on the evaluation of regulatory performance in laws and we have no evaluative framework to be applied to regulatory policies or programs in practice. Also, the literature on regulatory performance shows unclear and complex performance indicators, which have serious limitations in utilizing them. Further, the current system of regulatory performance evaluation has focused the number of regulations abolished rather than the importance and quality of regulations. This situations mean that we have no model of evaluating the effectiveness of regulatory reforms and thus, we have no guideline on the direction for the future.The purpose of this report is to develop a performance model and performance indicators of government regulations and to seek its utilization method. The developed model will evaluate the effectiveness of government regulations whether they achieve their goals such as improvement of the quality of lives and the enhancement of national competitiveness as intended. To achieve the purpose of the study, we have utilized Balanced Scorecard (BSC) model, which is recently widely used as a tool of comprehensive performance evaluation. This study has applied the BSC model to the field of regulations and developed an evaluation model and indicators of regulatory performance. At the end, this report also suggests possible ways to utilize the model and indicators.The report first has reviewed the literature on performance evaluation in general, and on regulatory performance evaluation in particular. The topics such as the concept, type, module, and tools of performance evaluation are reviewed in the first part. In the second part, we have defined the concept of regulatory performance and made a classification of regulatory performance. Also, we reviewed the current ystem of regulatory performance evaluation in Korea, U.S.A. and the OECD and the literature on regulatory performance evaluation. These reviews have revealed that the number-oriented approach, i.e. number of regulations abolished, of the current system cannot accurately measure the real performance of regulations requiring an alternative method of evaluating regulatory performance. In the next section, this report has introduced the BSC model and discussed its applicability to the field of regulation. In this section, we first have discussed the necessity of BSC-based performance evaluation system, introduced the BSC model focusing its four perspectives, and applied the BSC model to the field of regulatory performance evaluation. The application has five steps: launching project team; confirming mission, values, visions, and strategies of organizaitons; designing of the objectives and indicators of regulatory performance; determining measurement indicators and developing causal relationship; and setting objectives and determining priorities of initiatives.In the last part of the report, we have discussed possible ways of utilizing the model and indicators of regulatory performance developed in the previous section. We first have discussed institutional arrangements for the utilization and analytic methods of the evaluation methods and its utilization methods centered on analysis and recording system of evaluation results and incentives for the utilization.The evaluation of regulatory performance has a distinctive role in checking the current practice of regulatory institutions and policies as a way of evaluating the effectiveness of government regulations. Through the performance evaluation, we can detect the obstacles of regulatory reform, evaluate the individual contribution of regulatory policies to its performance, and suggest future directions for the development. Also, the performance evaluation makes performance-oriented approach to regulations possible, and provide a model of comparison among regulatory agencies conducting similar regulatory programs. We hope this study will become a useful guide to practitioners and scholars in conducting regulatory performance evaluation.