日本の行政

担当教員

工藤 裕子

配当学期・曜日・時限

冬学期 月曜 2限

内容・進め方・主要文献等

The course has three major topics, which are the goals as well;
1) To understand the historical and institutional evolution of Japanese government. Its institutional-setting and political-administrative system would be introduced from a comparative point of view.
2) To understand the system dynamism and decision-making process of Japanese government. In this regard, politics-bureaucracy relationship, characteristics and mechanism of Japanese decision-making process and organizational issues of Japanese institutions would be analyzed and discussed.
3) To understand the issues and policies of Japanese government. Major issues and policies in the past and in recent years would be discussed. Especially for this section, selected guest speakers would be invited to provide recent policy cases of Japanese government.
The course would be divided in three parts according the topics above mentioned. In each section, course participants will be provided a pack of reading materials, which would be discussed after the introductory lecture of the instructor. Participants are asked to find cases (Japanese and those of their countries of origin) to be examined and be presented during the course. Selected cases would be discussed at the end of the course.
As recent issues and policies of Japanese government, special attention will be paid at center-periphery relationship, decentralization, devolution, privatization, deregulation, and agencification. Further issues include; e-Government, ICT policy, performance measurement, policy evaluation and performance based project budgeting as recent policy topics.

授業計画

1. Course introduction, Issues and characteristics of Japanese Government
2. Historical evolution on institution and policy issues of Japanese Government
3. Institutional and political characteristics of Japanese Government
4. Politics-bureaucracy relationship
5. Japanese decision-making process, Japanese policy-making process
6. Policy actors in Japanese decision-making process (politician, political party, related associations)
7. Policy actors in Japanese decision-making process (bureaucracy, business, interest groups)
8. Issues and policies of Japanese Government (major policy after World War II)
9. Issues and policies of Japanese Government (major policy after ‘80s)
10. Issues and policies of Japanese Government (‘90s and later)
11. Policy cases: center-periphery relationship, decentralization, devolution
12. Policy cases: privatization, deregulation, agencification
13. Policy cases: e-Government, ICT policy
14. Policy cases: performance measurement, policy evaluation, performance based project budgeting

教材等

Paper pack would be provided by the instructor. A list of suggested readings would be also provided to the course participants.

成績評価の方法

平常点、Exercise PresentationおよびTerm Paperによる

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