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The Regulatory Changes of Local Government in Korea

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2018, 28(4), pp.237-259
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

엄영호 1 Son Sun Hwa 1

1연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

As an active measure to bridge the gap between the regulatory regime and the field, local government-led improvement efforts are essential to successful regulatory reform. The regulatory reforms led by the central government are likely to be inconsistent with local regulatory enforcement. In promoting reform, however, local governments are still the agents of the central government not as subjects and participants. Therefore, this study focuses on the characteristics of the change of regulation creation, tightening, and deregulation of local governments, and examines the dimensions of the change of local regulations instead of the dichotomy of existing deregulation and strengthening regulations. In order to systematically analyze the actual conditions and dynamic features of local government regulation, we analyzed 5,722 changes in the regulation of newly-established, tightening, and deregulation among total local regulations in regulatory information portal system. As a result of the analysis of the dynamics of local regulation, the economic regulation has gradually eased and the new regulation of social regulation has been increasing rapidly. In addition, comparing the regional regulatory changes in the metropolitan area, the population and financial budget of the region and the number of regulations were not related. Although local governments have continuously made efforts to improve local regulations in accordance with the central government regulatory reforms, the level of regulatory autonomy of local governments is still insufficient, suggesting that local governments need to expand their regulatory discretion. Finally, we derive the implication that regulatory efforts should be made in order to achieve public interest gains and enhance the quality of regulation through the establishment of local regulatory reform governance.

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