This book is based on the EAI’s research program aimed aims to release a report on redefining presidential roles and restructuring presidential power. This research is designed to gather knowledge and wisdom in society and political leaders’ experiences of conducting state affairs, and to integrate them into theoretical approaches. For this purpose, the EAI hosts seminars and forums in which the former prime ministries, cabinet members, and presidential secretaries participate. Vigorous and lively discussions among scholars and politicians help to select critical agendas, basic direction and specific methods of reform to make presidential leadership more democratic and effective. This book contains a comprehensive set of policy recommendations for the reform of the presidency and its Blue House Secretariat.

 Contents

In Making a Successful Presidency

 

Part One. President and the Presidential Project
Chapter 1. The Qualifications and Personal Virtues of (as) a President ｜ Se-Il Park
Chapter 2. Re-defining Presidential Roles ｜ Jong-Seop Jeong

Part Two. System of the Blue House Presidential Secretariat
Chapter 3. Planning · Coordination · Evaluation ｜ Hong-Kyu Lee
Chapter 4. Political Integration ｜ Sung-Don Hwang
Chapter 5. Personnel ｜ Pan-Suk Kim

Part Three: The Presidency and Policy Coordination
Chapter 6. Foreign Policy, National Security, and the Presidency ｜ Jong-Ryn Mo
Chapter 7. The Presidency and Bureaucratic Coordination ｜ Jae-Wan Park
Chapter 8. The Presidency and Regulatory Reform ｜ Byung-Sun Choi

Part Four: The Presidency and Political Society
Chapter 9. The Presidency and the National Assembly/Parties ｜ Hoon Jaung
Chapter 10. The Presidency and Civil Society ｜ Jae-Ho Yeom

 Contributors 
Se-Il Park: Seoul National University
Pan-Suk Kim: Yonsei University
Jong-Ryn Mo: Yonsei University
Jae-Wan Park: SungKyunkwan University
Jae-Ho Yeom: Korea University
Hong-Kyu Lee: School of IT Business at Information and Communication University
Hoon Jaung: Chung-Ang University
Jong-Seop Jeong: College of Law at Seoul National University
Byung-Sun Choi: Seoul National University
Sung-Don Hwang: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Byung-Kook Kim: Director of EAI, Korea University