일본 정부 간 관계론에 대한 비판적 고찰:기존 연구의 검토와 잃어버린 논점

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to proceed a critical review of the main approaches to center-local relations and intergovernmental relations in Japanese local governments that have been discussed so far, and to suggest overlooked arguments that have not been discussed in these approaches.
 The main contents are as follows. First, we examine the meaning of theories of intergovernmental relations in Japan. Second, we provide a perspective for analyzing the main approaches. The main analytical factors are intergovernmental intermediary route, intergovernmental administrative resources, and explanatory variables of intergovernmental relations. Third, based on this analytical perspective, we analyze the main approaches on intergovernmental relations in Japan and those characteristics. The main characteristics of current approaches tend to emphasize the administrative route, law-finance resources, the institution as an explanatory variable, and the degree of control of the central government. Fourth. we analyze the form of central government intervention, autonomy from the socioeconomic environment and autonomy from the central government, movability and exit option, and the size of the local government in terms of the exclusively focused on intergovernmental relations in Japan.