Administrative Reform and Decentralization in Asia-Pacific -the Relation between Central Governments and Local Ones

我们对澳大利亚、马来西亚、新加坡、泰国、韩国和日本等国家进行了比较研究，发现联邦制国家和没有联邦制国家之间存在着显著的差异：1)联邦制国家正在引导行政体制的改革，而不是中央政府与地方政府的关系；2)随着泰国和韩国相对进步，地方政府独立于中央政府，人口集中在首都城市；3)新加坡是一个非常有趣的分权研究案例。谈到分权，几乎所有人都关注领土独立于中央政府，然而新加坡是城邦，所以领土不能分权，相反，新加坡政府正在很大程度上研究政府职能分权的可能性。

We made a comparative research on those nations as Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Korea and JapanWe have found that there are some significant differences between two types of nations, the nation with federal system and ones without that.1)The nations with federal system are leading to reform the administrative system rather than the relation between the central governments and local governments2)Those nations concentrated the population in the capital cities as Thailand and Korea are relatively progressing the local governmental independence from the central ones in relative sense3)Singapore is the very interesting case to study for decentralization. When it comes to decentralization, almost all people pay attention to territorial independence from the central governments, however Singapore is the city-state so that the territory can not be decentralized, instead the government of Singapore is researching the possibility of decentralization of governmental functions to large extent.