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As a part of Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project(FAUI), this paper analyzes the welfare preference of mayors with an international comparison. To summarize Korean mayors in comparative perspective, they perceive themselves very powerful in local policy-making process, have a high level of welfare preference, and relatively successful in reflecting their welfare preferences on the actual policies. Their understanding of citizens welfare preferences are similar as theirs. With these results, this paper argues that the centralization of local welfare administrative system is not suitable to our situation, considering a high level of welfare preference shown by Korean mayors. On a theoretical level, this paper presents a meaningful evidence to counter so-called "Economic Perspective" contending that mayors behave only upon economic rationality, and thus have a tendency to evade welfare efforts.
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