Commparative Study of Political and Administrative Center-Local Relations in Scandinavia and in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number	05620044
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Politics
Research Institution	CHiba University
Principal Investigator	KOBAYASHI Masaya (1994) Chiba University, Fac.of Law&Economics, Assistant Professor, 法経学部, 助教授 (60186773) 森田朗 (1993) 千葉大学, 法経学部, 教授 (80134344)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	MORITA Akira University of Tokyo, Fac.of Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (80134344) OGAWA Ariyoshi Chiba University, Fac.of LAw&Economics, Research Associate, 法経学部, 助手 (70241932) 小林正弥千葉大学, 法経学部, 助教授 (60186773)
Project Period (FY)	1993 – 1994
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1994)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000) Fiscal Year 1994: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 1993: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Keywords	Centralism / Scandinavia / Sweden / Norway / Denmark / Decentralization / Local Government / 中央集権 / 分権 / ODA / 制度建設
Research Abstract	The purpose of this research is to investigato the center-local relation in the Scandinavian countrics and in Japan not only in administrative dimension but also in politico-historical dimension. An important finding from quantitative data is that the scandinavian sates have experienced drastic reduction of Kommuns, which resulted in creating local governments with sufficient resources to provide universal welfare. This makes contrast with the Japanese consolidated state organzsation, which has been said to have an flexible local center-local relation but otherwise seems to suffer from irrersponsible government relations and clientelism. Our conclusion is that the nordic model of local government has shaped by the discretional plan of the social democratic parties. Those plan emanated from f social architecture envisaged during the war by the swedish population policy or the nowegian counter plan of the excil labor movement against Nazi-occupated regime. But the pressure for decentralization and privatization is making change on this welfare localism planned by the social democratic centralism.