IZUMO AKIKO    Department   Professional Graduate School  , Graduate School of Governance Studies    Position   Professor
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.