A Comprehensive Study on Municipal Restructuring effect to the Local Communities during the Period of Koizumi Government.

小泉政府的市政重组给当地社区带来了重大影响。在许多合并的城市中，公共财政变得更糟，这可能会导致破产。在政治方面，由于、选区的重新安排，地方议会成员的数量减少，这使得他们的影响力变得更弱。这非常具有讽刺意味，因为L民主党政府推动的市政重组本身就使其投票机变得脆弱。此外，由于市政重组是在没有认识到行政区域和地方社区被复杂地过度确定的情况下进行的，因此，作为重组后预期的基本自治单位的“地方自治协会”缺乏“自治”的实质。

The Municipal restructure under the Koizumi government gave significant effects to the local communities. In many merged municipalities, public finance becomes worse, which possibly leads to the bankrupt. In the political area, members of local assemblies decrease in number, due to the rearrangement of constituencies、which makes their influence weaker. It is very ironic because municipal restructure promoted by the L DP Government itself made its voting machine fragile. Furthermore, as municipal restructuring was carried out without understanding that administrative regions and local communities are overdetermined complicatedly, “local self-governance association", which was expected basic self-governance unit after restructuring, lacks substance of “self-governance".