A Study on Tokyo Metropolitan Government''s Institution： from the Perspective of Greater Area and Decentralized Governance

• Main Authors: Hoping Wang, 王皓平
• Other Authors: 趙永茂
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/y3nb5f

博士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 104 === Abstract Regarding the governance of “region” and metropolitan, in the current academic discussions there are three major views, respectively are “traditional reformist”, “public choice theory” and “new regionalism”; the first emphasizes the merge between local autonomous bodies, the second emphasizes the differentiation of local autonomous bodies and multiple choices of the public; while new regionalism emphasizes the establishment of partnerships and cross-region connections between local autonomous bodies. The views of discussion among the three are different, but all the scopes of discussion are the problems of how to face with wide public people of a large region. Tokyo of Japan is located in the Kanto Plain, with a population of more than 13 million; in addition, if added the population of surrounding Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa, the total population will exceed 35 million and become the world''s largest metropolitan area with a highly and closely connected population, and belong to different autonomous bodies, so how to conduct local integration is indeed an important issue. Based on the above the subjects discussed in this study are as follows: 1. With the expansion of urban scale, the analysis and comparison of urban administrative region adjustments and cross-region cooperation mechanisms; 2. Regarding the local autonomies of wide public people, should how to design the system of second-level local governmental organizations; 3. Regarding the local autonomies of wide public people, what will be the governance model for their urban area and rural area; 4. The study of cross-region cooperation between Tokyo and surrounding counties, and the cross-region operations of various local autonomies under its jurisdiction; 5. What are the urban governance operational experiences of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government can be drawn on for the system of our country’s municipalities. Taking the system of Tokyo Metropolis as the object of discussion, its special features lie in that under the upper layer Tokyo Metropolitan Government there are 62 local autonomies; among them 23 are of a system of “district”; 39 are of a system of “city/town/village”, so is a city with two basic-level government organization systems, and the different basic-level local autonomous systems more show a different model of wide-area and decentralized autonomy. In addition, under such structure, as a wide-area autonomous body Tokyo Metropolis is how to integrate the 62 basic-level autonomous bodies in order to facilitate the promotion of overall policy of the city; at the same time how to conduct cross-region cooperation with neighboring Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa, and even be integrated into the wider large-scale plan of regional governance of Japan’s “capital circle”. Based on wide area governance experiences of Tokyo Metropolis, this paper attempts to analyze the opportunities and limitations of the merge, diversified differentiation and cross-region cooperation among local autonomies.