A Comprehensive Study of the Relations between Long Serving Mayors and Local Assemblies

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530135
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUNAMI JUN 神戸大学, 国際協力研究科, 教授 (70268217)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MORIMOTO Tetsuo 関西大学, 法学部, 教授 (30200447) ; TSUJI Akira 近畿大学, 法学部, 准教授 (70362564)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 日本政治分析 / 首長－議会関係 / 多選首長

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To follow up our previous study, "A Comprehensive Study of the Relations between Long Serving Mayors and Local Political and Adminirtrative Study" (2009-2011, 21530119), We aimed to study the relations between long serving mayors and local assemblies.
We interviewed assembly members who worked with long serving mayors and staffs of the assemblies. We found that the good relations that long serving mayors built with the assemblies made stable administration. We also found that each local assemby had its own rules and customs, as the assembly was widely regarded as its own autonomous activity. There are larger differences than the combentional understandings.

Free Research Field

政治学