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Albert Breton, in “The Economic Theory of Representative Government”, pointed out the bundle of policy makes some difference between representative’s policy and citizens’ needs. The electorate can’t choose a policy but the bundle of policy. This paper simulates magnitude of the difference. The simulation is repeated 1,000 times and has 10,000 citizens and two candidates with the bundle of policy. We found the rate of unsatisfaction is more than 0.5, and both the value of each alternatives and the number of alternatives affect the rate.

In Kiryu-Midori area,the six municipalities merged into two cities until by2006. And now,\nresidents start discussing whether the two cities should merge again or not. In this article,we\nsummarize “The 2011Municipal Census of Kiryu-Midori Area”and analyze what makes them\nform their opinion about the municipal merger. The census includes the questions about the\nchange of governmental service level after the last merger and about the opinion for and against\nthe next merger. We try to build a model which specifies how assessment of past municipal\nmergers influences opinion formation on future merger.