Policy termination and policy evaluation system

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  • 政策終了と政策評価制度
  • セイサク シュウリョウ ト セイサク ヒョウカ セイド

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<p>In Japan, when government introduced the policy evaluation system, many students of the policy evaluation and administrators did not think about policy termination. Then politicians and government officials thought about how the governments use the evaluation results for budgeting every year. As Japanese government rarely terminated goalless policies and programs outdated, when the central governments were changed in September 2009, so policies of Liberal democratic party survived. Mass media and many students of politics said ‘nothing changes’. This is right. However, this is because policy evaluations and program evaluations did not change ex-government’s policies and terminate programs.</p><p>By the way, in Japan, governments have introduced the strange policy evaluation systems, the systems became performance measurement system or output measurement. Sometimes we can see activity-based output monitoring in policy evaluation systems of Japan. Still, many officials in central government, local governments, and politicians confuse and mistake policy evaluation for performance measurement or output monitoring. This makes Japanese government un-accountable. We should look for the correct policy evaluation again, to terminate policies and make governments accountable.</p>

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