The Decision Process for Regional Policy


 Our governmental bodies make a public planning for the regional development in usually. Our local government makes the regional plan which will keep the financial supporting by central government. Our public regional planning makes up a comprehensive plan. The plan contains decision of the planning region and planning itself, and financial programs including financial supporting by central government.

Local governments have each local identities. So local government is under the decision making for a regional planning.
We understand that decision making to apply some financial supporting system to some planning region is observed to behavior between cetral and local government as a game theory.

So, this our issue as play the business game between central and local government is whether available using a financial supporting system for developing region or not to using that.

Now , we have two subjects (players) of decision making which are cetral government and local government of developing region. And they will have each two strategies which are composed of "positive" and "negative".

that is

MatrixA
positive negative
positive 100, 100
30, 60
negative 40, 40 60, 60

and another example is,

MatrixB
positive negative
positive 100, 100 30, 60
negative 110, 40 60, 60

MatrixA has a equilibrium which I have marked 100,100.
MatrixB has a equilibrium which I have marked 60, 60.

We can make some game trees from the combination of A & B matrix and sequence of player.

type 1 is MatrixA and the first move of central government
type 2 is MatrixB and the first move of central government
type 3 is MatrixA and the first move of local government
type 4 is MatrixB and the first move of local government

then

type 1 is cooperatinal
type 2 is confrontational
type 3 is conpetitional-1
type 4 is conpetitional-2

This is a normative discussion. And in the actual condition, we observe cooperational attitude between central and local government in frequently. These activities are profesional commonsence in the present situation of the political system in Japan.

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