| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
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| Research Abstract |
1 prefecture, 3 cities, 3 towns and 1 village in the Japan-sear im area which are known as the progressive local authorities in their international activities were selected for this research. Materials and voice information are also took from institutions, citizens' groups, researchers and NGOs. In these days NGOs are thought as on of the most important partner for the international activities by local authorities.
The key factors of the analysis of this research are (1) specific character of the international activities of each localauthority, (2) significance of their progressive international activities, (3)specific factors effective for their policy making process, (4) investigation of characteristic pattern extracted from progressive international activities by Japanese-sea rim local authorities, and (5) investigation of the style of policy making process of local authority in near future.
The most interesting result introduced by this research is the discovery of four typical style of policy making process, (l)top-down style, (2) leading department style, (3) systematic arrangement style, and (4)partner ship style. These four styles also relate to the local authorities' scale, to depth and width of their experience and to the degree of their commitment to the activities of non-governmental sectors. This result suggests that in case of weak policy control by central government, the policy making process tend to evolve from top-down style to internal consensus style and finally to partnership style, and the difference of the evolving type depends on the scale of the local body and the attitude of the top leader.
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