Local Self-Government in the Age of Higher Tax Burden - The challenges of Nordic countries

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23402017
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Daito Bunka University
• Principal Investigator: ANAMI Akira 大東文化大学, 法学部, 教授 (70144102)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SUGANUMA Takashi 立教大学, 経済学部, 教授 (00226416) ; YABUNAGA Chino 東洋大学, 国際地域学部, 教授 (10364845) ; SHIRATORI Hiroshi 法政大学, 公共政策研究科, 教授 (70285477) ; KINOSHITA Yoshie 東北学院大学, 法学部, 教授 (70308229)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 地方自治 / スウェーデン / デンマーク / ノルウェー / フィンランド / 北欧

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project we inquired the transformations of the local self-government in Nordic countries (except Iceland), focusing especially on central-local relations, regionalization, and the political institutions for local governance. Against backdrop of the globalized economic competition all those countries have been trying to reform their political, administrative and fiscal institutions of local government, facing the challenges caused by the restructuring of economy and fiscal austerity. However, each country has its own way of reform. Our research has made the content and process of those reforms and some aspects of differences among those countries apparent. In addition, we identified some tasks with which we expect to be engaged.

Free Research Field

政治学