논문

After the restoration of local authority, most local governments underwent
considerable social changes. The Korean local governments have received new
demands for decentralization including overall devolution by the Participatory
Government to manage their public service. Because devolution could be
restricted by the custom controlling ceremony of the central government, this
article examines comprehensive contents related to enforcing the decision-
making power on organization and personnel devolution in local government.

In justifying decentralization, this article analyzed the current situation with some
categories between the central and the local government. First, intergovernmental
relations should change to improve the cooperative activities through the practical
process of local decentralization. Second, at law and institutional level,
decentralization could be reviewed in enforcing local government's authority
through the systematical devolution of the central government. From these
perspectives, this article suggests several directions for reform to establish
desirable devolution in intergovernmental relation, and the decentralization
process.