A study of unpublish data inflastructure for Town and Village Assembly Union

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K01447
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 06010:Politics-related
• Research Institution: University of Niigata Prefecture
• Principal Investigator: TAGUCHI Kazuhiro 新潟県立大学, 国際地域学部, 准教授 (20376411)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 政策過程 / 政務活動 / 議長会 / インタビュー / オーラルヒストリー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I investigated a collection of unpublished documents held by GITYO-Kai, the Chairpersons' Association, an association of town and village assemblies established in the prefectures, and shed light on the political activities of the Chairpersons' Association, which are very difficult to record, the cooperation between the multiple Chairpersons' Association, and the process of this spread to the National Chairpersons' Association and the six local organizations as a whole.
Due to the spread of COVID-19 during the research period, I was unable to collect the large number of unpublished and original documents that I had initially planned to collect, but I was able to get a general idea of what materials I should collect and preserve in the future. In place of collecting documents, I also conducted video interviews with those involved in the current issue of "prospective council members," and shed light on the political activities of the Chairpersons' Associations.

Free Research Field

公共政策学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

政策がなぜ、どのように決まったのかを検証する資料を得ることは難しい。事件・事故等の問題に基づき世論が形成されるとしても、問題がどのように解決されるべきかは具体的な行動を起こし、それを政策づくりへと昇華させるアクターの存在が必要なのであるが、それらアクターは保存用の記録を作成したり、そもそも前面に出てくることも多くはない。
本研究では都道府県域議長会の未公開資料中に政策形成過程に関する資料があることを示し、また、それに不足するところは議長会関係者へのインタビュー等が方法としてあることを示した。