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Self-Serving Mayors and Local Government Consolidations in Japan

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  • Akihiko Kawaura

    (Doshisha University, Department of Policy Studies)

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This paper investigates local government consolidations with a focus on public choice aspects in the decision-making. Politicians could lose future payoffs if their locality merges with a larger counterpart, and they may sabotage the merger process. The analysis with data from 3,212 Japanese municipalities reveals that a long-serving mayor would present an obstacle to consolidation.

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Paper provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 201014.

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Length: 14 pages
Date of creation: 27 Aug 2010
Handle: RePEc:hai:wpaper:201014
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Keywords: local government; mayor; incentives; merger; public choice;

Find related papers by JEL classification:

  • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
  • H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General

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Cited by:

  1. Eric Weese, 2015. "Political mergers as coalition formation: An analysis of the Heisei municipal amalgamations," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 6(2), pages 257-307, 07.
  2. Hirota, Haruaki & Yunoue, Hideo, 2016. "Evaluation of the fiscal effect on municipal mergers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japanese municipal data," MPRA Paper 68890, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  3. Hirota, Haruaki & Yunoue, Hideo, 2011. "Municipal mergers and special provisions of local council members in Japan," MPRA Paper 37485, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  4. Saito, Hitoshi & Hirota, Haruaki & Yunoue, Hideo & Miyaki, Miki, 2017. "Does municipal mergers internalize spatial spillover effects? Empirical evidence from Japanese municipalities," MPRA Paper 76833, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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