독일 지방행정구역개편의 과정과 교훈

초록

Many countries have been experienced the process of restructuring local administrative district that has been established through long history. Local administrative district is local autonomy itself and also has a great deal of impacts on the efficiency of the government and convenience of the residents. Korea has started a process of making a new local administrative district system that will be adopted in 2014. In Federal republic of Germany, there have been many times of try in order to establish new local administrative district system according to the political, economic and social changes so far. Germany has relatively long history and various cases of restructuring local administrative district. In this context, this paper aims at examining German experiences and efforts to cope with the problems of the restructuring local administrative district so as to get some lessons for Korea. Above all, the key factors for the success of restructuring are the participation and concensus of the people, harmony among political democracy, economic and administrative efficiency. Without these, restructuring local administrative district could not get successful results.

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