これまでの広域行政では，連携相手として地理的隣接や県内を前提に置くことが多かった．一方で，デジタル化が進み，このような地理的制約が弱くなる．本研究の目的は，市区町村隣接関係の変化という観点から平成の大合併を検証し，遠隔型連携の有効性を明らかにすることにある．具体的に，次の三点を実施する．第一に，平成の大合併により失われた旧自治体の隣接関係，広域連携により生じた空間的齟齬を定量化する．第二に，平成の大合併にて越境合併のハードルが高かったこと，合併後の越境連携事業の展開の困難さを数値化する．最後に，地続きや県域限定の前提と比べて，遠隔型連携が，組む相手の選択肢の豊富さなどで優れることを組み合わせ論に基づいて計量化する．外部性や移動抵抗を考えると，広域連携では，地理的に一体性を有する地面でつながる隣接が本質である．そこで本研究では地理的隣接性の影響を抽出する．そのため，人口規模...

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Prior research suggests an inverse relationship between geographic distance and financial market linkages. In this paper, we examine whether and how cultural distance between countries mitigates this finding. We find that country-pairs exhibit higher linkages if they have smaller cultural distance. The result remains significant to alternative measures of linkage. Finally, the cultural effect s...

Telehea l th , b ro adly defined, is the use of telecommunications and information technologies to overcome geographic distances between health care practitioners or between practitioners and patients for the purpose of diagnosis, treatment, consultation, education and health information transfer. The vastness of Canada has made the delivery of health services to its widely dispersed population...