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Hori, Masaharu. "Japanese Public Bureaucracy and New Public Management: A New Convergence?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 29, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p63054_index.html>

Hori, M. , 2003-08-29 "Japanese Public Bureaucracy and New Public Management: A New Convergence?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p63054_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Japanese Public Administration (JPA) has dramatically adapted to New Public Management (NPM) since the late 1990’s. In December of 2001, the Japanese Government decided the Guidelines for Reform of the Public Servant System, which “aimed at achieving fundamental reform of the public servant system from the standpoint of citizens” (Prime Minister Koizumi). The concept of NPM has already been introduced into the JPA through establishing the Administrative Independent Corporations (Dokuritu Gyousei Houjin) and the Policy Evaluation System (Gyousei Hyouka Seido) for the Japanese central government. Why does not the Japanese Public Bureaucracy (JPB), explicitly or implicitly, reject the Reform due to more control from politicians? Why does JPB seem to be self-contradictory, holding the traditional bureaucratic identity of Rechtsstaat (administration proactively conducted by legal discipline) in spite of embracing managerialism focused on efficiency and effectiveness? How will the above newly reformed dichotomy between politicians and bureaucrats gradually evolve towards new governance based on civic engagement in Japan? Bernard S. Silberman, criticizing the famous Max Weber’s hypothesis of state bureaucratic rationalization, pointed out divergence of bureaucratic structures in developed countries, and then, questioning differences between the US and UK, and Japan and France, considered rationalization as a response to political crisis and redefinition of the correlation between public and politics. If so, I may claim the convergence of Japanese bureaucratic structure into the Anglo-Saxon type. We need to re-examine isomorphism of rationalization at the beginning of a new century.

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