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

小泉纯一郎政府的地方自治团体结构调整给地方社会带来了巨大的影响。在许多合并后的城市，公共财政变得更糟，这可能导致破产。在政治领域，由于选区的重新安排，地方议会议员的人数减少，从而削弱了他们的影响力。这是非常讽刺的，因为自由民主党政府本身推动的市政重组使其投票机变得脆弱。此外，由于市政重组是在不了解行政区域和地方社区的复杂超定的情况下进行的，因此，重组后预期的基本自治单位“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".