Legal Normative rewiew of Mutual Complementative Relationship between "Functional autonomy" and "Local autonomy"

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K13181
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 05010:Legal theory and history-related
• Research Institution: Hiroshima Shudo University (2022-2023); Nagoya Keizai University (2021)
• Principal Investigator: Kadowaki Mie 広島修道大学, 法学部, 教授 (70761899)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 機能的自治 / 地方自治 / 民主的正統化 / 共同自治 / 地方制度調査会 / ドイツ疾病保険 / 保険者の自治 / 自治基本条例

Outline of Final Research Achievements

(1) Deliberation Trends of the 33rd Local Government System Research Council: The Report from the Council and the bill to amend the Local Autonomy Law were reviewed and summarized in a paper. (2) Practices of territorial autonomy: Community development through resident autonomy centered on the local government basic ordinance were researched and summarized in a paper. (3)Theory of Democratic Legitimization of Functional Autonomy: The method in which functional autonomy is legitimized from the principle of democracy was examined on the multi-layered autonomy consisting of coalitions of insurers and health care providers in public health insurance in Germany.(4) Consolidation of functional autonomy and territorial autonomy: In this paper, it was hypothesized that the "autonomy as an insurer" of municipalities in particular was complemented by public interest representative funktion of local autonomy.

Free Research Field

行政法、地方自治法

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

国は少子高齢化と資源制約を背景に領域自治体特に市町村が担ってきたサービスを機能的に分解し住民組織に代替させる政策を推し進める。本研究はこのような「共助」の政策化という方向性を第33次地方制度調査会の審議・答申等に見出し、これとは異なる、地方自治体内部からの自治活性化の端緒と方向性を示した。地域課題対応の実践を通じて住民自治は活性化し、住民自治に支えられた地方自治は機能的自治（例：国保保険者としての自治）も活性化させ補完する。以上の分析を通して、地方（領域的）自治は機能的自治の集積に解消され得ず、両者は重なり合うことで相互活性化し、前者の公益代表機能は後者を補完するという接合関係を明らかにした。