일본 정당정치의 변동과 정책변화 : 2001년 성청 개혁을 중심으로

Abstract

The Change of Policy and Party Politics in Japan: Focusing on Administration Reform in 2001Jin, Chang-Soo (Sejong Institute)The administration reform of Japan was started under Hashimoto government in 1996 and the form of government has been changed to '1 department 12 ministries ' system as the result in January 2001. The current administration reform has decentralization and deregulation, and it is different from the reform of the 2nd extraordinary administration committee in 1980s. It brought about a big change of Japanese administration style which has been maintained until now.This paper gives a thought that the administration reform of Japan in 2001 brought about neo-liberalistic reform and qualitative change of politics-government relation, and intends to focus on political upheaval that affected the institutional change. That is, this article examines how the historical change of regime that finished 38-year-old LDP one-party ruling system and the continuance of coalition government since 1993 affected the administration reform.This research insists that reform of government in 2001 was able to be successful because of the weak coalition government. The weak coalition indicates that LDP couldn't ignore the 'political leading' goal in policy that non-LDP asserted under the coalition government. Also, with this systemic factor, the reform could be successful because prime minister intended to use it as his expansion of political influence.