Challenge for small-scale social service provision by local residents―approach to Japanese “coproduction” style

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  • 地域住民による小規模社会サービスの供給ヘ――「コプロダクション」への模索――
  • 地域住民による小規模社会サービスの供給へ : 「コプロダクション」への模索
  • チイキ ジュウミン ニ ヨル ショウキボ シャカイ サービス ノ キョウキュウ エ : 「 コプロダクション 」 エ ノ モサク

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<p>The change of public service production has been caused by transformation of life risk structure and danger of the sustainability of welfare state, in globalization and post-industrialization. Various perspectives are presented by many scholars―governance, welfare mix, and co-production. A number of municipalities advocate the collaboration of their citizen since 1990s · in Japan. Many cities institutionalized neighborhood government as the system of the public service production by the residents. They expect that citizens improve their mutual cooperation for elderly care, child care, disaster prevention and crime prevention. Japanese neighborhood government consists of not only decision making body but also executive body, which organizes neighborhood associations. This article examines the neighborhood government in Miyazaki city. City government provides the subsidies to their 21 neighborhood governments. People tackle local problems more than before. But in contrast, there is a tendency to immobilize their projects due to the power of the old style neighborhood associations. One neighborhood government begins production of small scale social service, bypassing the influence of the neighborhood associations. Residents recognize the importance of agenda setting, decision focusing on the future, and combination of mobilization and volunteer. The case study of this article shows the reaction of the straddling civil society in reconstruction of public service provision.</p>

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