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2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

A Geographical Study in the Now Proceeding Municipality Amalgamation in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14580097
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Human geography
Research InstitutionFukuyama University

Principal Investigator

MORIKAWA Hiroshi  Faculity of Economics, Fukuyama University, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (70040706)

Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2003
Keywordsone-tier municipality / municipal union / Great Amalgamation in Heisei era / Germany / Biirgernahe / sphere of living / new states in Germany / seIf-government
Research Abstract

In the last two years 1 surveyed the municipal onganisations in the eight states of Germany in order to supply some effective materials to the now ongoing municipal reform in Japan. As previously estimated, there are no countries in Western Europe executing the municipal reform now again. In the former West Germany not only amalgamations of normal type but also municipal unions (Gerneindeverbande) of several types with the population of 5000 or 8000 were formed in the 1970s. Fast all of municipal unions remain today without moving to the municipalities of normal type. The main reasons are in getting the modern municipal abilities without losing the right of self-government for the membered municipalities. It is recognized that it is very important for German citizens to keep the idea of Burgernahe and Ubersichtbarkeit in their municipalities. Large cities also have the organization of Bezirk owing to the self-government of wards. Contrarily in Japan, the self-government of small villages was lost already in the modernization by the amalgamation of Meiji era so that the real idea of self-government and local democrapy has not grown. In addition, it seems that the abolishment of gun-organization in early time has obviously influenced to the development of municipalities. Since my study in Germany does not yet complete, my research about the Japanese municipal reform has not progressed. However, I wrote a critical paper about the now ongoing municipal reform in Japan. Then I maintained that after the municipal amalgamation of large scale the financial situation of municipalities will be not so improved, under the difficult maintainance of the present level of public services as well as in destroying the community consciousness.

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All Publications (12 results)

  • [Publications] 森川 洋: "ドイツにおける市町村の現状-ラインラント・ファルツ州とニーダーザクセン州との比較考察"人文地理. 55-2. 99-120 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 森川 洋: "旧東ドイツ地域における市町村の現状-チューリンゲン州とブランデンブルク州を例として-"地誌研年報. 12. 159-183 (2003)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 森川 洋: "ドイツ・シュレスヴィヒ・ホルンシュタイン州におけるアムト制度の現状"福山大学経済学部論集. 272. 27-64 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 森川 洋: "ドイツ・ノルトライン=ヴェストファーレン州の市町村制度と地区(ベチルク)制度"地誌研年報. 13(印刷中). (2004)

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  • [Publications] 森川 洋: "ドイツ・バーデン=ヴュルテンベルク州の市町村の現状"福山大学経済学部論集. 282(印刷中). (2004)

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  • [Publications] 森川 洋: "「平成大合併」に関する批判的考察"地理. 47-9. 8-15 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Morikawa, H.: "Contemporary municipalities in Germany --A comparative study between Rhineland-Palastinate and Lower Saxony--"Human Geography. 55-2. 99-120 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Morikawa, H.: "The present situation of municipalities in the new states of Germany--a case study of Thuringia and Brandenburg"ANREG. 12. 159-183 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Morikawa, H.: "The present situation of Amt-organization in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany"Fukuyama Economic Review. 27-2-27-64 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Morikawa, H.: "The organization of municipality and Bezirk in North-Rhineland-Westfalia, Germany"ANREG. 13. 27-52 (2004)

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  • [Publications] Morikawa, H.: "The present situation of municipalities in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany"Fukuyama Economic Review. 28-2,(in printing). (2004)

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  • [Publications] Morikawa, H.: "A critical consideration on the Great Amalgamation of Heisei era"The Chiri. 47-9. 8-15 (2002)

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Published: 2005-04-19  

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