This study aims at analysing, with focus on the budgetary politics perspectives, that the Partisan spirit(bias) in the Local Autonomous Ward Council affects or not to question-answer relationships among actors in budget deliberation process and to fin...
This study aims at analysing, with focus on the budgetary politics perspectives, that the Partisan spirit(bias) in the Local Autonomous Ward Council affects or not to question-answer relationships among actors in budget deliberation process and to final annual budget cutbacks. To accomplish this study, many data explaining and representing the degree of question-answer relationships, reciproctiy norm, and budget cutbacks were collected through the contents analysis on the Ward Council Records. Busnajin-gu and Kwangjubuk-gu Councils which has different partisan bias each other. The finding of this study are as follows. First, Partisanship in the Local Autonomous Ward Councils is one of the important factors to affect bargaining behaviors among actors(especially between the Assembly and the bureaucrat) in the deliberation process on budgets. Second, A Local Ward Council supporting the ruling party in the nation has much more behaviors of control-oriented question and active response than the Council supporting an apposition party. Third, The main pattern and behavior about budget increase or decrease which coming out in Local Council`s Budget Deliberation Process is budget cutback-oriented in both Standing Committee and Special Committee on Budgets and Audits.