system. When council sizes become larger, their expenditure might be larger because of the selfish behavior of local council … members. This paper estimates the positive effect of local council size on local government expenditure using a dataset of 13 …,989 municipalities in Japan over a period of 6 years. In Japan, local council size is a deterministic and discontinuous function of …

, called Heisei-no-Daigappei. This paper estimates the political choices of local council members in Japan’s municipal mergers …. In Japan, being a local council member is a full-time job. The local council has “veto powers” over local administration …. Since the wage for a local council member is quite high, council members like to keep their seats. The jobs of local council …

functioning of public authorities, in this case the Local Council. We intend to highlight the legislative deficiencies and to seek …

councils anchored in a sustainable development environment. The paper is based on a survey applied on the Brasov county Local … Council staff having in view the following objectives: Searching for the world tendencies for a sustainable development within …