지방의회 의원의 윤리규정 개혁에 관한 연구:

Study on Local Council Members' Ethics Regulation Reform:

This study is focused on the examination of various factors causing unethical behaviors of local council members and how they can be corrected in order to make more idealistic ethics system. On the research, they are compared with foreign cases of legislation and application. Findings from the comparative review allow progressive implications to the institutionalized Korea's status-quo local autonomy system and its unethical conditions. This study proposes to enhance the level of Korea's local council members' and other elected public servants' ethics through the reform of various systems and regulations related to sanctions and governance as well. The study includes: first, it illustrates the local autonomy ethics system relations in other advanced local-autonomy nation-states. Even though the ethics system of local council members varies along the nations in its origin and development procedure, legal institutions, sanction, and regulations, those nations' ethics systems for public servants have been tend to be more regulatory than liberal, emphasizing higher standards of ethics than ever. Secondly, various reformative measures of ethics and sanctions are introduced, thanks to the published knowledge on other nations' autonomy systems. Of course, they are all prone to reexamination under the Korea' circumstances. Thirdly, several proposals of institutional reform for the Korea's local council members' ethics are suggested, consulting Korean experts' writings and literatures as well as borrowing from other countries' exotic cases. Some of them are still on public debate and still to be further developed toward the future. This study contributes to the efforts to make them in real.