Political Economy of Municipal Amalgamation

城市合并的政治经济学

基本信息

批准号：
10620076
负责人：
MABUCHI Masaru
金额：
$ 1.28万
依托单位：
KYOTO UNIVERSITY (1999-2000)Osaka City University (1998)
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
1998
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1998 至 2000
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

My research focused on the amalgamation efforts of the 1950s, because this seems to have laid the foundation for economic growth and political democracy in postwar Japan. Two questions will be addressed. First, why could municipal amalgamation be carried out promptly? Second, what was brought about by municipal amalgamation?As for the first question, national and prefectual governments seemed to follow a strategy of opening an attack on municipalities with less resistance against amalgamation. The national government elaborated and implemented devices to advance-or at least not to break-chain reactions of amalgamation that started spontaneously in urban areas. The point was to exploit circumstances that made municipalities reluctant to fall behind in the march of municipal amalgamation.As for the second question, while the positive effect of amalgamation on administrative efficiency is widely accepted, it is also generally believed that there is a negative effect on democracy. I examined the relationship between amalgamation and democracy from three different angles, . They show that amalgamation has a rather positive impact on the democratization of municipal politics, or at least it is democracy-neutral. lt is a mistake to think that amalgamation always weakens democratic control of the residents over public affairs.I made research on a case of Sasayama City. In this case, members of municipal assemblies initiated the amalgamation of their towns. My research question was why they initiated it in spite of its negative effect on their political positions. My conclusion is a probability of losing their seats in the assemblies, therefor their attitude toward municipal amalgamation depends upon distribution of populations of towns. This suggests that members of municipal assemblies are deeply effected by patterns of amalgamation.

我的研究重点是1950年代的融合工作，因为这似乎奠定了战后日本经济增长和政治民主的基础。将解决两个问题。首先，为什么可以及时进行市政合并？其次，市政合并带来的是什么？至于第一个问题，国家和秘密政府似乎遵循一项策略，即对对融合的抵抗力较小的市政当局发动袭击的策略。国家政府详细阐述并实施了设备，以推进或至少不为融合的链链反应，而这些反应是在城市地区自发开始的。关键是要利用使市政当局不愿落后于市政合并的情况。第二个问题，虽然合并对行政效率的积极影响被广泛接受，也普遍认为，负面影响会产生负面影响。关于民主。我从三个不同的角度研究了融合与民主之间的关系，即。他们表明，融合对市政政治的民主化具有相当积极的影响，或者至少是民主中性的。认为合并总是削弱对居民对公共事务的民主控制权是一个错误。我对萨萨亚马市的案件进行了研究。在这种情况下，市议会议员开始了城镇的融合。我的研究问题是，尽管对其政治立场产生负面影响，但他们为什么发起了它。我的结论是在议会中失去席位的可能性，因此他们对市政融合的态度取决于城镇人口的分布。这表明市政组件的成员受到合并模式的深刻影响。