The Local Administration's Policy Implementation along with the Central Government's Policy Change

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26512014
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 公共政策
• Research Institution: Kyoto Prefectural University (2015-2016); Ritsumeikan University (2014)
• Principal Investigator: Matsuoka Kyomi (孫京美) 京都府立大学, 公共政策学部, 准教授 (40425020)
• Research Collaborator: Ahn Young Hoon 韓国地方行政研究院, 主席研究員 ; Tanwattana, Puntita チュラロンコン大学, Environmental Research Institute, 専任研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 行政進展 / 作動様式 / 政策実施 / 比較分析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The theoretically hypothetic framework in this study is that a political culture is distinguished by the operational emphasis of "what" or "how" on the administratively rational basis of the importance of the both "what and how" to be done. According to it, the policies of flood disasters are analyzed in comparison between Japan, Korea and Thailand while taking into account the substantial hierarchy of the central and local relation. The findings of Japanese characteristics differed from the two other countries are that the emphasis of "how" to be done in Japanese central government’s policies may be complemented by the emphasis of "what" to be done in Japanese local governments’ implementation. The administrative progress in such Japanese characteristics called a political culture may be brought by local administrations’ elaborating "what" to be done in order to make a balance of the “heteronomous obedience” and the “autonomous discretion” in the local policy process.

Free Research Field

政治学