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The Impacts of Local Autonomy on the Planning Rationality: Rethinking Intergovernmental Conflicts

김동완 1

1세종대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines intergovernmental conflict in the regard of Weberian planning rationality, the foundation logic of modern national-state. Since studies on intergovernmental conflict have focused only on organizational relationship, those have limitation of understanding the conflicts simply as to the level of institutional fix or leadership. This paper proposes that intergovernmental conflict with elected officials is resulted by spatial differentiation in the state rationality, not by just the purely organizational relationship of government. In this paper, Weber's state theory and the notion of rationality are modified with the notion of state space and scale. Also, the meaning of local autonomy was examined by historical method, regarding the spatial differentiation of substantive rationality as the core concept of the analysis. The result is as the following. Firstly, South Korean developmental state had huge substantive rationality as “Fatherland modernization” in national scale. However, the local autonomy had based on the success of democratization and industrialization has leaded substantive rationality to spatially differentiate. Finally, the intergovernmental conflict can be the conflicts among the substantive rationalities.

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