이 연구는 지방정부 간의 통합에 영향을 미치는 요인들에 관한 실증적인 조사 및 분석을 통하여 시민들이 선택 가능할 수 있는 합리적 대안을 도출시켰고, 시 통합을 성공적으로 구현하기 위한 정책 대안을 제시하려는 데 그 목적이 있다. 첫째, 시 통합 사례에 관한 문헌 조사와 현지 사전조사를 병행하여 성공 및 실패요인을 검토한 후, 국내외 학자들의 견해와 성공요인에 대한 변수를 탐구하였고 이를 바탕으로 지방정부의 정치, 경제, 문화, 교육, 환경, 종합에 미치는 효과를 실증적으로 분석하였다. 둘째, 이 기준은 통합의 평가기준(Evaluation Criteria)의 토대를 마련하는 데, 지역의 특수성을 심층인터뷰를 통해 탐구하면서 그 의미를 해석하고 이를 반영하였다. 그러나 전국의 지방정부 차원의 보편화된 평가지표 개발은 중앙정부차원의 지원을 통해 맞춤형의 지방정부 통합성과지표를 개발해야 할 것으로 판단하였다. 셋째, 분석 과정에서는 시민의사결정 요인과 차별화된 시민정서 탐구를 위해 심층인터뷰 및 표적집단면접을 병행하여 객관성과 신뢰성을 확보하였다. 그 결과는 화성시의 신도시지역과 구도심지역에서 통합에 대한 시민들의 인식기준과 영향요인에 대한 차이를 보였고, 지역별 통합요인에 대한 인식과 우선순위도 다르게 나타났다. 오산시는 특히 도시의 난개발로 인한 환경피해와 지역 간 격차의 해소를 강조하는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 시 통합 절차와 그 효과를 높이기 위한 기관으로 ‘지역발전위원회(Committee on Regional Development)’를 설립한다. 그 조직 운영은 시민의 자율성을 기초로 권한과 책임을 원칙으로 ‘시민통합위원회’가 그 중심에 있다. 시의 통합에 대한 우호적인 분위기를 조성하고 구체적으로 ‘자율서명운동’, ‘통합주민투표’의 과정을 통합위원회의 사업안으로 집행한다. 이러한 지역발전위원회에서는 다양한 분야별 행정서비스와 제도적인 문제점을 해결하여 장기발전프로그램을 계획안을 마련할 것이다. 다섯째, 시 통합의 발전을 담당할 ‘지역발전위원회’에서 시민들에게 두 시의 특성을 반영한 정책적 우선순위를 정치, 경제, 교육, 문화, 환경 그리고 종합적인 효과를 극대화할 수 있는 전략적 요인에 대한 분석과 그 시사점을 제시하였다.
The process of integrating local governments can not only determine quantitative aspects of academic rigorous data and performance such as productivity, effectiveness, rationality, fairness, and efficiency, and determine their success or failure. Local integration is possible when conflicting interests and rivalry between individuals and groups with different backgrounds of politics, economics, culture, environment, and education in the region are fused into cooperation and trust. The convergence of these regions can be defined as a series of processes that reflect the needs and characteristics of citizens in various fields such as political, administrative, economic, educational, cultural, and environmental.
According to this study, for the success of city integration, the local development committee should be operated to enable citizen and civil servants to implement exemplary integration process through participation, communication and sharing. In order to operate it, we should prepare a citizen-oriented public space to mitigate and eliminate various conflicts of interests and latent conflicts, and present realistic alternatives that can be realized. And establish complementary relations in the fields of local industry and administrative services to promote the integration of local governments successfully. Through the 'Citizen Roundtable and Network of Cooperation Network', which can solve difficult issues in the region, various policies for communication, participation and sharing should be reflected in the policy. This study analyzes the successes and failures of domestic and foreign local governments on the integration of previous research, and based on the nine independent variables and five dependent variables explored here, The validity of the research model and analysis method was determined. In addition, in order to supplement the lack of previous studies and to reflect the specificity of regional integration, we increased the reliability of the respondents through questionnaire surveys on city integration and in-depth interviews with target groups selected by generation, age, and region. In addition, the researchers analyzed the meaning of candidates' interests in detail.
Therefore, we will make customized regional development in the areas of politics, economy, education, environment in the city-space level among local governments. To do this, we must first hold a regional roundtable meeting to exchange the city's comparative advantage functions and resources. Second, the collected and proposed citizen doctors should be able to be formed and enforced in the policy area of the 'Regional Development Committee'.
In this study, based on the empirical analysis of factors affecting the economic, educational, cultural, environmental, and political effects of city integration factors and the results of in-depth interviews of target groups, present. First, efficiency, environment, and convergence are the most preferred strategies for enhancing the effectiveness of city integration. On the other hand, the least favored strategies for economic aspects are equity, democracy, and reliability. Second, the most preferred strategies for enhancing the effectiveness of city integration education are in order of environment, convergence, reliability, democracy. On the other hand, the least favored strategies in terms of education were efficiency, autonomy, and equity. Third, the most preferred strategies for enhancing the cultural effect of city integration are efficiency, environment, cooperation, and convergence. On the other hand, the most unfavorable strategies in terms of culture are outsourcing, equity, and reliability. Fourth, the most favorable factors for enhancing the environmental effect of city integration are convergence, equity, environment, cooperation. On the other hand, the least favored strategies in terms of environment were outsourcing, autonomy, efficiency. Fifth, convergence, democracy, environment, and cooperation are the most preferred factors for enhancing the political effect of city integration. On the other hand, the least favored strategies in terms of politics are autonomy, efficiency, reliability. Finally, the most favorable factors for enhancing the comprehensive effect of city integration are environmental, convergence, efficiency, cooperation. On the other hand, the most unfavorable strategies in terms of the overall aspect are the order of autonomy, extravagance, and democracy.