From a Majority to a Minority: How Municipal Mergers in Japan Changed the Distribution of Political Powers and the Allocation of Public Services Within a Merged Municipality
From a Majority to a Minority: How Municipal Mergers in Japan Changed the Distribution of Political Powers and the Allocation of Public Services Within a Merged Municipality
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从多数到少数：日本的市政合并如何改变合并后市内政治权力的分配和公共服务的分配
DOI：
10.1177/1078087416669603
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Kyohei Yamada
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作者：
Kyohei Yamada
本文探讨了市政合并是否会改变合并后的市政当局的公共服务水平。我认为，居民的小城市合并与较大的邻居失去了合并后的政治权力，他们成为一个合并后的城市内的少数民族，他们的选举重要性相应下降。因此，合并后的地方的公共服务水平预计将下降。我测试这一论点的重点是在日本的市政合并，迅速发生在2000年的全国范围内的一致性。我对合并后的农村自治市和在这一波合并中保持不变的农村自治市的选民进行了一次调查。使用的调查结果，我证明了公共服务的水平，被调查者认为，下降更显着的合并比在没有市政府的市政府。
This article examines whether or not municipal mergers change the perceived level of public services within a merged municipality. I argue that residents of small municipalities that merge with larger neighbors lose political powers after the mergers; they become a minority within a merged municipality, and their electoral importance declines accordingly. As a result, the level of public services to the merged localities is expected to decrease. I test this argument by focusing on the nationwide concurrence of municipal mergers in Japan that rapidly took place in the 2000s. I conducted a survey of voters in rural municipalities that merged and those that remained intact during this wave of mergers. Using the responses to the survey, I demonstrate that the level of public services, as perceived by the respondents, declined more significantly in municipalities with mergers than in municipalities without.
影响因子：
8.2
作者：
TIEBOUT, CM
通讯作者：
TIEBOUT, CM