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National governments are presented with a range of choices regarding administrative organization according to geographical area that range from highly centralized to highly decentralized. The main trade-offs are between clear responsibility and less duplication of services in centralized systems and greater flexibility and more local accountability. These choices have important consequences for the nature of power, politics, local government functions, and resources (Peters 2001: 151–152). Decentralization, also known as local autonomy, is the process where authority is redistributed from centralized authority to local authority (Bahl 2008). The Republic of Korea has increased local autonomy along with democratization, giving local government more to do, in addition to more budgetary discretion. The current level of local autonomy is based on long-standing efforts since liberation in 1945 in favor of...
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Anderson, C.D. (2019). Local Autonomy in South Korea. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3816-1
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