National Research and Study on Political Funding

政界人士的资金募集情况如何？我们调查了在1996年总选中参选的384名选区议员（包括84名选区落选议员，在比例代表中“复活”）。一般来说，每个政治家可以建立以下三种政治团体：(1)筹款团体，每个政治家只能建立一个。根据法律规定，企业对募捐团体的捐款每年不能超过1000日元。(2)地方党支部，其主席是有关的政治家。(3)被称为个人选举委员会的其他政治团体。公司不能捐赠。通过指定每种类型的团体，总结他们的财务报表，并抵消他们之间的捐款（因为他们被算作两次收入），我们计算出了每位政治家的大量收入和支出。自民党议员的平均收入为1.31亿722万日元，自民党议员的平均收入为1.08亿日元，民主党议员的平均收入为4.12亿日元。在自民党中，筹款团体是核心组织，筹集了57%的收入；相反，新经济政策的中心组织是地区党支部。

How about the fund raising activities of each politicians? We investigated three hundred and eighty four representatives who ran from the districts in 1996 general elections (including eighty-four members lost in districts and "revived" in proportional representation). As a rule each politician is able to set up following three kinds of political group :(1) Fund raising groups which politicians can set up only one for each. Companies cannot make donations for more than live thousand yen a year for a fund raising group by law.(2) Local party branches whose presidents are the concerned politicians.(3) Other political groups called as personal election committees. Companies cannot donate them.By specifying each kind of groups, summing up their financial statements, and offsetting the donations among them (because they are counted as income twice), we have calculated the substantial amount of each politician's revenues-and expenses.The average income of LDP representatives was a hundred thirty-one million seven hundred and twenty thousand yen, while that of NFP was one hundred and eight million yen and that of DPJ was forty million twelve hundred yen. In LDP fund raising groups were the core organization collecting fifty-seven percent of their revenue ; in contrast, NEP whose central organization was district party branches.