입법관리의 실태 및 효율화 방안

Abstract

Legistics, the science of legislation, has for a long time dealt with the contents of laws and the legislative process in the ministries and Parliament. It’s activities, both in theory and practice, have recently begun to concentrate on democracy, efficiency and effectiveness of norms. There are two reasons for these developments. First of all, budgetary pressure, which calls for more rational and cheaper laws. Second, the neo-liberal philosophy of the slim state, reinventing government as small government, the State as an agent for the essentials and no more. Like OECD countries, both the National Assembly and the Government in Korea have introduced and operated a variety of devices designed to achieve democracy and efficiency of the legislation. But as this study shows, those devices have not been managed well enough both in quality and in quantity, mainly because they are not made by the principle of check and balance. To make the legislative process well working from the aspect of democracy and efficiency, this study shows some remedies like “Point of Orders”. “Cost Estimates for Bills”, “Legislative Evaluation”, and so on. But more impotently, there is need for introduction of top-down systems in law-making procedure like budgeting one, to enable standing committees of assembly to deliberate bills in broader prospective, for example, from the aspect of efficient distribution of scarce resources.