The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze the relationship between ordinary construction expenditure in local autonomy and attributes of mayors who experienced bureaucrat's career, based on research results about the rational behavior of politicians and bureaucrats mainly accumulated in a public choice theory and public economics and also taking politics, public administration and local autonomy theory into account.
In Japan, about 80% of mayors experienced politician's and/or bureaucrat's career in the last twenty years and mainly experienced it in local autonomy. But when we survey research results about the rational behavior of politicians and bureaucrats mainly accumulated in public choice theory, there are few researches taking politician's past career into account and there is no researches which deal with local cities in Japan. In this sense this thesis is very significant.
Specifically, when I examine the relationship between the local public finance of all Japanese cities in the last twenty years and the bureaucrat's career which mayors experienced in such cities by multiple regression analysis, I get a positive significant result.

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