지역정치 활성화를 위한 지역정당 설립 방안 연구: 해외 주요국 지역정당 사례의 비교분석

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to diagnose the problems of the current Korean party law system that is preventing the establishment of local political parties and to draw up realistic plans to enable the establishment of local political parties in order to revitalize local and civic politics. For this purpose, this study aims to analyze the cases of regional political party activation in major foreign countries such as the UK, Germany, Spain, USA, and Japan, where the establishment of regional political parties is free and local political parties are relatively active, and to find policy implications for revitalizing regional political parties in Korea. The results of comparative case analysis are as follows. First, it is difficult to find countries with stronger regulatory characteristics than the requirements for political party establishment in Korea, among the major overseas countries included in the analysis of this study. Second, it was confirmed that the political parties do not regulate the participation of political organizations in elections as a legal requirement of political parties in countries where local political parties exist and actively operate. Third, it was confirmed that the more difficult the legal regulatory conditions for political parties, the weaker the legal base for the existence of local political parties. It is virtually impossible to apply the examples of major foreign countries examined in this study to the political party law system of Korea as it is. This is because not only the historical paths in which political systems and local autonomy systems have been applied are different, but also the political culture and social environment of political societies where political systems work are different. Therefore, it is necessary not only to demand that the current political party law system, which is thoroughly protected by the political interests of the two vested parties, be reformed unconditionally, but also to make efforts to realize more concretely the realistic measures that can activate local politics and civil politics under the current political party law system, that is, the effective measures to establish a limited regional party.