2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Studies on Bureaucracy after Reorganization
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13420018
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
TANABE Kuniaki The University of Tokyo, Department of Law and Politics, Professor, 大学院・法学政治学研究科, 教授 (40171813)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SHIROYAMA Hideaki The University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, Associate Professor, 大学院・法学政治学研究科, 助教授 (40216205)
MORITA Akira The University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, Professor, 大学院・法学政治学研究科, 教授 (80134344)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2003
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| Keywords | Policy Evaluation / Interorganizational Coordiation / Bureaucracy / Reorganization |
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| Research Abstract |
Administrative reform under the Hashimoto Government consists of three packages ; these are, the strengthening of cabinet function, the reorganization of several ministries, and the separation of planning and implementing functions. This research explores what the contents of reforms were, what the impacts on the bureaucracy these reforms had, and under what conditions these reforms had the intended results.
First, the administrative reform under the Hashimoto Government was based on the ideas, so-called the New Public Management, which promoted the governmental reinventing in the Anglo Saxon countries. As the ministries were reorganized according to the principle of the New Public Management, the mechanism to control several organizational resources had to be changed. Interorganizational mechanism based on the differentiation between the auditor and the audited, has played greater role than before.
Second, policy evaluation was introduced. And executive agencies were set based on the idea that separating the function of implementation from that of planning was a good measure to improve the efficiency of governmental activities. Policy evaluation is a tool to feedback the performance of the executive agencies into planning phase in the Ministries. But we showed that the expectations of stakeholders for policy evaluation were quite high, and there were several discrepancies between these expectations and what we can do using policy evaluation. We pointed that the other institutional conditions have to fulfill to improve the effectiveness of this mechanism.
Third, new competitive mechanisms of providing public services were introduced to reduce the cost of services. We showed that building a management system such as performance accounting and contract management in the ministries is necessary to function this mechanism well.
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