2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Scale of Democracy and Discretion of Executive Branch
| Project/Area Number |
16K03506
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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 |
Politics
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAMIKO AKIO 立命館大学, 政策科学部, 教授 (70378503)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
野田 遊 同志社大学, 政策学部, 教授 (20552839)
村山 皓 立命館大学, 政策科学部, 授業担当講師 (50230016)
村山 徹 名古屋経済大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (80706862)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | 民主主義 / 政府規模 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research showed the structural difference between freehand in policy decisions by the politicians and freehand in policy implementation by bureaucrats.
Also, through analysis of dependent variables on government democracy scale, including those related to volunteer fire brigades, it showed that the scale of government democracy, which shows the balance between representativeness and responsiveness, can explain the features of national and local governments in Japan. At the same time, it theoretically showed the structure where the balance between representativeness and responsiveness supports discretion by executive branch.
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| Free Research Field |
行政学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
民主主義は代表者を通じて人々の意見を実現する代表性と国民、住民から表明された意見への応答を通じて人々の意見を実現する応答性をその要素として持つ。これらの要素の影響の大きさが、一つの政府の人口の規模の大きさと人口密度の逆数であり、人一人当たりの面積の大きさを示す地域密度と関連することを示すことにより、我が国における政府の制度の在り方、また、そこにおける行政の自由裁量の在り方を考える縁を提供した。
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