Basic Report

  
  
   There is a limit for central government to make and implement policies with nocooperations of local governments in a decentralized era. If these such things - centralgovernment-dominated governance and confrontation and conflict between cental and localgovernments - are persistent, effective and efficient government operations would hardly beachieved. It, therefore, drives us to recognize urgent necessity of strengthening future-orientedcooperation system between central and local governments through preventing confrontationsand conflicts on the philosophy of co-living. This study aims to propose strategies to improvethe cooperation system between central and local governments.The results of analyzing current cooperation system and factors influencing on it showthat there are some limitations. For instance, both participation scheme and coordinationscheme are rarely helpful to secure sound cooperation between central and local governmentsin Korea. More specifically, degrees of involvement, transparence, and responsibility that arecritical factors to assure soundness of cooperation system are hardly sufficient in the processof operating participation and coordination schemes.Thus, this study suggests several strategies to help strengthen the cooperation system, whichserves to accomplish Government 3.0 as follows: first, it is necessary to institutionalize acentral-local cooperation to enhance communications and collaborations between them.;second, it needs to open a door for local governments to ensure practical involvements.; andthird, it needs to think out a way to consolidate trust between them and the lead to competentand stable cooperation system. Based on the analyses and strategies, this study recommendsthe legalization of local government association's participation in national policy-makingprocess, the enactment for preventing and resolving governmental conflicts, and theintroduction of the impact assessment to localities of national policies.