주민투표제도의 법적 문제점과 개선방안 = Legal problems and improvements of referendum

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Community participation in the existing local government has been comprehended to be supplementary and secondary functions. However, it is hard to reflect the various needs of residents which are about diversified and information-oriented with only those functions and electing a represent who serves the community can not be assured to be democracy as well. Therefore, the control over the work that is against the resident intention as well as various channels for the constant expression of the residents should be fulfilled. It is the best way to have the residents take part in local administration themselves for reflecting their opinions in it rightly.
Referendum is well known to be a form of direct democracy and this is the representative way of expressing the resident intention by participating all over the policy moves. So, the necessity of th way is getting emphasized.
Referendum as direct resident participation covers functional instabilities of parliamentary democracy and establishes voting system that is by residents. It also means a lot to secure the democratic regulations on local self-government administration by making democratic decisions on the local government. Also, it can satisfy the constantly growing residents' desires of being involved in local administration, which is able to complement representative body and to be a mediation role in the case that there is a trouble between the local government head and the local council.
Referendum had been enacted in 1994 by the Local Government Act. reform, and the law of local referendum had been proclaimed in 2004. Since the law had been enforced, the referendum of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, that of combination with Cheong-ju and Cheong-won, that of soliciting of radioactivity waste site and that of free lunch in Seoul had been taken, but the legal and systemic imperfection and inexperience and immature citizen participation were raised as questions.
To get solved the considerable gap between public opinion and the decision-making through the representative system, referendum is necessary. It does solve the gap, on the other hand, it is used to be as political interests.
This thesis has been looked see common opinion about local self-government and referendum, and analyzed the systems and examples of America, Germany, Japan and Switzerland comparing with ours. Throughout the examination, the legal problems of referendum such as problem with appling provisions, that with a subject, a proposer, requirements and district, that of vote campaign, and that of effectiveness have been come up and suggested several ideas to figure them out.
Referendum would be carried out more frequently from now on. Respecting and reflecting the will of the people for settling the conflict of the local decision-making is mostly accord with democracy. Law revision and supplementation should be required to have desirable referendum function as means of policy decision, and to hold each other in check a local government head and a local council. Lively researches should also be followed in the future through more cases.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 제1장 서론 1
• 제1절 연구의 목적 1
• 제2절 연구의 방법과 범위 3
• 1. 연구의 방법 3
• 2. 연구의 범위 4
• 제2장 지방자치와 주민투표제도 5
• 제1절 지방자치 5
• 1. 지방자치의 의의 5
• 2. 지방자치의 법적 근거 7
• 3. 지방자치에 대한 주민참여로서 주민투표 8
• 제2절 주민투표제도 9
• 1. 주민투표의 개념 9
• 2. 주민투표의 유형 11
• 3. 주민투표의 기능 17
• 4. 주민투표의 한계 19
• 5. 주민투표권의 기본권성 20
• 제3장 외국의 주민투표제도 23
• 제1절 미국 23
• 1. 의의 23
• 2. 주민투표의 유형 및 운용현황 24
• 3. 평가 26
• 제2절 독일 27
• 1. 의의 27
• 2. 주민투표의 유형 및 운용현황 29
• 3. 평가 31
• 제3절 일본 32
• 1. 의의 32
• 2. 주민투표의 유형 및 운용현황 33
• 3. 평가 36
• 제4절 스위스 37
• 1. 의의 37
• 2. 주민투표의 유형 및 운용현황 38
• 3. 평가 40
• 제4장 우리나라 주민투표제도의 현황 및 문제점 42
• 제1절 주민투표제도의 현황 42
• 1. 주민투표제도의 도입 42
• (1) 주민투표제도의 도입배경 42
• (2)「주민투표법」의 주요내용 42
• 2. 주민투표 실시사례 분석 46
• (1) 제주행정구조 개편 48
• (2) 청주·청원의 통합 51
• (3) 경주 방사성폐기물처분장 부지선정 53
• (4) 서울시 무상급식 55
• 제2절 주민투표제도의 문제점 59
• 1. 준용규정상의 문제 59
• 2. 주민투표대상의 문제 59
• 3. 발의자의 문제 61
• 4. 실시요건 및 실시지역의 문제 61
• 5. 투표운동의 문제 63
• 6. 투표의 효력상 문제 66
• 7. 주민투표경비의 부담문제 68
• 제5장 주민투표제도의 개선방안 70
• 제1절 준용규정 70
• 제2절 주민투표대상 70
• 제3절 발의자 71
• 제4절 실시요건 및 실시지역 72
• 제5절 투표운동 74
• 제6절 투표의 효력 77
• 제7절 주민투표경비의 부담 79
• 제6장 결론 80
• 참고 문헌 83
• Abstract 86