The Korea Local Administration Review

Report Bounty System(RBS) is a representative case of the policy diffusion in the government. This study examined whether the introduction and operation of the RBS of local governments can be explained from the perspective of policy diffusion theory, and analyzed the mechanism of spreading the RBS through event history analysis. In particular, the diffusion of the system was divided into time, spatial, content dimensions to prove the diffusion dynamics. The Kapplan-Meyer survival analysis of the time dimension showed that the cumulative survival probability and diffusion showed a S-curve, and the Moran′s Index value showed a positive relation in the spatial dimension analysis. In the analysis of the context level, the Cox regression analysis showed that the introduction recommendation(pressure effect), the introduction of neighboring local governments(neighbor effect), and the introduction of other RBS(learning effect) were statistically significant in the introduction of the system. On the other hand, in the system operation, the recommendation of the upper government, the integrity index, and the experience of introducing other RBS were influenced.