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GPI Brief no. 1 (November 2007)
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- "Policy Institutions" Research Note
Crossroad in the 21st Century—Structural Changes: Policy Entrepreneurs as a Key to Policy Design and Institution Building.........3
Mika Shimizu (GPI Co-Director)
- The more accelerated and more complex globalization of the 21st Century has affected the structure of public policy. How we address this point can be a watershed for public policy, since understanding the essence of this point will influence the foundations of problem-solving-oriented policy processes at both the micro and macro levels, and furthermore the ways of policy design and institution building. This paper provides a brief summary of analytical perspectives of structural changes in public policy, and policy institutions to address these changes. Based on the perspectives, it suggests a policy implication especially for Japan with the role of policy entrepreneurs.
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- "Globalization and Public Policy" Research Note
Globalization and the Role of Public Policy.........5
Kei Karasawa (GPI Senior Advisor and Professor Emeritus, Ritsumeikan University)
- While the deepening of globalization has undermined the existing order, a new order has not emerged yet. It is an urgent task for the international society and public policy to cope with its negative consequences, such as poverty and economic imbalances. To this end, it is vital to innovate policy-formation mechanisms, by mobilizing the public and overhauling the framework of “public policy equals government’s policy.” With these perspectives, the paper provides key points of view for globalization and the role of public policy.
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- "Policy Research" Note
Policy Study and Nonprofit Think Tanks: Contributions to Democracy Process .........7
Makiko Ueno (GPI Senior Advisor and Professor of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University)
- Policy study has been significantly developed in the United States, and together with evolving nonprofit policy research institutions, so called think tanks, it has become a social infrastructure for helping democracy work and making government function. Whereas, in Japan, the political mess and the government’s inability to handle problems came from the long lack of policy study that includes policy research, analysis, and evaluation of government activities and policies. Japan is still the only developed country without nonprofit policy research institutions. The challenge for Japan is how to develop the institutional and human capacity for policy research, analysis, and evaluation.
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