IZUMO AKIKO
Department Professional Graduate School , Graduate School of Governance Studies Position Professor |
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Research Period | 2016/04~2019/03 |
Research Topic | Research on Separation and Integration of Politics and Administration: a possibility of working for local councilors as well as public servants |
Research Type | KAKENHI Research |
Consignor | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
Research Program Type | Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) |
KAKENHI Grant No. | 16K03487 |
Responsibility | Representative Researcher |
Representative Person | IZUMO Akiko |
Details | This study examined how to increase the number of candidates for local councils where there is an increase in non-voting, or even "everyone can become a member". Specifically, I pointed out that it is necessary to "relax the restriction on post-employment restrictions" in which company employees and public officials can concurrently work with councilors, as well as the review of remuneration, fixed numbers of councilors and the authority. In particular, civil servants are not permitted to be councilors at the same time. But public officials in other countries are allowed to serve as local councilors, assuming that counselors are unpaid volunteer. Based on the actual conditions of other countries, I examined what kind of range of restrictions on concurrent duties needed to be relaxed for public servants to be local councilors. I wrote some articles and made a presentation in an academic conference as research achievements and received certain response. |