| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This project investigated on "Das Neue Steuerungsmodell", a German model of New Public Management, inquiring the theoretical background of the model, its application to German municipalities and problems on the process of the reform. With the inquiring at some municipalities and research organizations in Germany during this term of project, I have got the following results :
1. Although the reform in many municipalities are motivated by financial difficulties, the reform actually doesn't contribute to the improvement of financial situation. On the contrary the financial difficulties often prevent from driving the administrative reforms. It is caused by the purpose of the reform model : this reform model aims at the modernization and rationalization of administrative processes. The reform at the moment succeeds in the making of strategic local policy, improvement of the quality of services, controlling of the effect and efficiency and its feedback and decentralization of administrative organization.
2. This reform sometimes contradicts to the principle of constitutional state in Germany, especially in the matters that are obligated by federal laws to municipalities, e.g. social assistance. Municipalities often feel difficulties the reform of such an area, because of the luck of their competence and discretion. Concerning this problem the federal and state governments attempt some pilot projects, adding to the laws the experimental clauses, and aim at the prospective amendments of the laws.
3. This project paid attention to the theories of transaction cost and principal-agent relationship, analytical apparatuses of the New Institutional Economics, as the theoretical background of the reform model. According to these theories the reform must be extend also to the connection between revenue and expenditure. It seems inevitable, that local tax reform proceeds on the agenda.
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