Structure of policy coordination in elderly care and function of government ministries

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26780081
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Ehime University (2016-2017); The University of Tokyo (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: Ohta Kyoko 愛媛大学, 法文学部, 講師 (60723963)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 高齢者 / 中央省庁 / 縦割り / 調整 / 政策実験 / 地方自治体 / ネットワーク・ガバナンス / トランジション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research clarified the actual situation of inter-policy coordination across the central ministries and departments based on case studies of elderly policy both in Japan and abroad. In particular, it was revealed that policy coordination would be made through human and financial interactions such as proposal-style subsidies by ministries, temporary personnel assignments between central-local governments, and learnings through policy experiments that bridged the gap between existing institutions in local government and local community. Also, in this research, the interaction process of multi-level policy coordination was analyzed with reference to the two approaches of network governance and transition research.

Free Research Field

行政学