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Performance Management in Japanese Local Government

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Accountability; Bureaucratic culture; Cross-cutting issues; New public management (NPM); Policy evaluation; Results-based management

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Characteristics and current situation of performance management among Japanese local government.

Introduction

Measuring performance of organization for better public service delivery is an essential part of recent public sector reforms in many countries (Bouckaert and Halligan 2008; Boyne 2010). It is widely recognized that a “performance management” in public sector reform is an application of new public management (NPM) disciplines that seek economy and efficiency of public organizations through a competitive market for “public choice.” A movement for performance management started in the US local governments in the late 1980s and spilled over to non-Western countries including Asian developing nations (Koike 2013). In Japan, in the rise of “bureaucracy bashing” in the early 1990s, public managers were forced to be more accountable...

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  1. Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan

    Osamu Koike

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Koike, O. (2018). Performance Management in Japanese Local Government. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3248-1

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