Empirical Analysis of Public Choice in a Local Governments Setting: Retrospective Voting and the Behavior of Interest Group
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24530359
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Public finance/Monetary economics
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| Research Institution | Aoyama Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Keywords | 公共選択論 / 地方財政 / 市町村 / 政治経済学 / 公共経済学 / 政治的意思決定 / 地方選挙 / 公共選択 / 首長選挙 / 業績投票 / 地方自治体 / 職員団体 / 公務員給与 / 入札制度 / 市町村合併 / 地方政治 / 原子力 / retrospective voting |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The main results of this research project are as follows: (a) Municipal mayors tended to win elections through weakening their own local public finances, especially in the recession of 1980-2004. This implies that voters are less motivated to hold back on worsening local finances. (b) It has been demonstrated that labor unions of civil servants succeeded to reject or mitigate the wage reduction requested by the central government. This implies that the mayors and local council members cannot ignore the pressures from local interest groups. Local government officials who are unable to ignore the interests of voters and civil servants are willing to sacrifice the local fiscal situation to satisfy voters and civil servants preferring higher expenditures regardless of fiscal impact.
I doubt whether it is wise to delegate authority to local governments with such tendencies. We should understand the public effect on local government more carefully.
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Report
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Research Products
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