Between the ‘Governance’ Model and the Policy Evaluation Act

New Public Management in Japan

Bibliographic Data

ID9961369
AuthorsHiroko Kudo (0000-0001-5827-4053, Waseda University, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume69
Issue4
Pages483-504
Publication date2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review of Administrative Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-8523 • E-ISSN: 1461-7226
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0020852303694005
OpenAlexW1985817183
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited3

This article tries to describe Japanese npm (New Public Management) from two opposite poles: from the national legislative framework and from an experimental example in local government. Since the late 1990s, although npm was developed from Anglo-Saxon experiences, it has been implemented in Japan at the national level in a unique manner. The crisis in public finance, the urgent need for public sector reform and political instability led to two extreme options: self-reform by the bureaucracy itself; and citizen empowerment resulting inpressure on the bureaucracy. While the second one has been struggling to obtain public consensus, expertise for its practice and institutionalization, the first has resulted, to a certain extent, in the reorganization and restructuring of administrative institutions andin the establishment of both a legal framework and an operational system for measuring performance and evaluating policy

Bureaucracy · Corporate governance · Economics · Government (linguistics · Institutionalisation · Legislature · New public management · Political science · Politics · Public management · Public sector · Restructuring · Finance · Law · Ombudsman and Human Rights · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research

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