21세기 지방정부의 역할에 관한 소고 : 새로운 지방정부 모형의 탐색 In Search of a New Model of Local Governments = A Treatise on the Role of Local Governments in the Twenty-First Century

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Based on individual moral autonomy and market mechanism, the neoliberalism is haunting all the corners of this country. This situation inflicts the task of enhancing competition involving performance and outputs on all the public institution and organization including governments. Facing such reality motivated this paper to have attempted two things: first, performing a conceptual analysis of this sweeping orientation whether it would be a viable guiding principle governing the public organizations, if not the society as a whole, even in this new century in which we expect the enormous increase of interdependence and complexity of all the social members: and, next, providing a suggestion for an alternative model of local governments in that complex and interdependent century if this governing orientation would be not a viable guiding principle. After having examined some major hypotheses and theories involving neoliberalism, this treatise concluded as Geoffrey Vickers had done in similar ways. That is, an imposition of more emphasis on maintaing social relationship, rather than enhancing performance and outputs generated by neoliberalism, would he a more viable role that public organizations in the twenty-first century have to seek after, and, the role as arbitrator or midwife is more demanded of local governments in generating values and priorities that would enhance commanlity.