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Crucial Decisions By Small Towns and Villages: Why Did Some Municipalities Choose to Merge But Others Did Not During the Nationwide Wave of Municipal Mergers in Japan?

Kyohei YamadaGraduate School of International Relations, International University of Japan, Minami Uonuma, Niigata, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 480-491 | Published online: 30 Nov 2015

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Takeshi Miyazaki. (2022) Does ethnic diversity affect public goods provision? Evidence from boundary reform of local governments. Applied Economics 54:34, pages 3903-3923.
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Kyohei Yamada & Kiichiro Arai. (2021) Do boundary consolidations alter the relationship between politicians and voters? The case of municipal mergers in Japan. Local Government Studies 47:4, pages 519-545.
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Kim Strandberg & Marina Lindell. (2020) Citizens' Attitudes Towards Municipal Mergers – Individual‐level Explanations. Scandinavian Political Studies 43:4, pages 296-316.
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Kohei Suzuki, Hyesong Ha & Claudia N. Avellaneda. (2020) Direct and non‐linear innovation effects of demographic shifts. Australian Journal of Public Administration 79:3, pages 351-369.
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Steve Pickering, Seiki Tanaka & Kyohei Yamada. (2020) THE IMPACT OF MUNICIPAL MERGERS ON LOCAL PUBLIC SPENDING: EVIDENCE FROM REMOTE-SENSING DATA. Journal of East Asian Studies 20:2, pages 243-266.
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Yifei Zhang & Peng Wang. (2020) Impact of a cold-village merger plan on the Investment Cost and Energy Utilization Ratio of Biomass Combined Heat and Power Plants. Journal of Cleaner Production 255, pages 120346.
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Kohei Suzuki. 2019. Social Equity in the Asia-Pacific Region. Social Equity in the Asia-Pacific Region 159 175 .
Kyohei Yamada. (2016) From a Majority to a Minority: How Municipal Mergers in Japan Changed the Distribution of Political Powers and the Allocation of Public Services Within a Merged Municipality. Urban Affairs Review 54:3, pages 560-592.
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