Research Project on Legislative Procedures and Activities

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330042
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: MACHIDORI Satoshi 京都大学, 国際公共政策研究科, 教授 (40283709)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KAWATO Sadafumi 東京大学, 法学政治学研究科, 教授 (10133688) ; TATEBAYASHI Masahiko 京都大学, 公共政策連携研究部, 教授 (30288790) ; YAMADA Masahiro 関西学院大学, 法学部, 教授 (40260468) ; NARAOKA Sochi 京都大学, 大学院法学研究科, 教授 (90378505)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MASUYAMA Mikitaka 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, 教授 (50317616)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 議会 / 提案・討論機能 / 政党組織 / 議場構造 / 議院内閣制

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Legislatures have two major functions: policy deliberations and policymaking. While the main stream of legislative study focuses on the latter, policy deliberations have been the central subject of our project. In particular, we have been academically interested in the relationship between policy deliberations and party organizations, chamber and floor designs, and the separation of powers. Our fundamental hypotheses have been that these factors affect procedures and managements of legislative organizations, which regulate how policy deliberations are conducted. As results of our research, in the case of Japanese Diet, party organizations, chamber and floor designs, and managements of parliamentary system are based on the confrontational relationship between the executive and legislative branches. Although It fits with the historical development of the Japanese Diet and polity as the whole, it also has negative effects on the function of policy deliberations.

Free Research Field

議会・政党・部門間関係の比較政治学的分析