TY - JOUR
T1 - Privatization of childcare service in Japan
T2 - analysing gradual policy changes since the 1990s
AU - Nishioka, Susumu
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Japanese Society for Public Administration.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Japanese Society for Public Administration. The earlier draft of this article was presented at the Fourth International Conference on Social Policy and Governance Innovation, ?Innovation in Social Service Delivery?, held on 24?25 of November 2016 at The Education University of Hong Kong and Lingnan University in Hong Kong. The author gratefully acknowledges Hellmut Wollman and Alex Jingwei He, who are editors of this special issue as well as organizers of the international conference, for their valuable suggestions. The author also would like to thank participants in the conference and the anonymous reviewer at the journal for providing helpful comments on the early version of this article, Takashi Arai, Naoki Sakazai and Toshiro Wakabayashi for providing expert knowledge, Koichiro Agata and Jiro Uno for kind support.
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PY - 2018/9/2
Y1 - 2018/9/2
N2 - In recent years, some public administration and management scholars have observed a shift in the trend of New Public Management (NPM) and privatization towards post-NPM, and a ‘return to the public’ in terms of public sector reforms. However, this shift does not necessarily appear in all policy fields. The aim of this article is to analyse public sector reforms and their policy processes in social service provision, focusing on child day-care centres in Japan since the 1990s. The article reveals the trajectory of policy reforms in relation to the privatization of day-care centres using a historical institutionalism approach.
AB - In recent years, some public administration and management scholars have observed a shift in the trend of New Public Management (NPM) and privatization towards post-NPM, and a ‘return to the public’ in terms of public sector reforms. However, this shift does not necessarily appear in all policy fields. The aim of this article is to analyse public sector reforms and their policy processes in social service provision, focusing on child day-care centres in Japan since the 1990s. The article reveals the trajectory of policy reforms in relation to the privatization of day-care centres using a historical institutionalism approach.
KW - Childcare
KW - conjuncture
KW - day-care centre
KW - historical institutionalism
KW - layering
KW - privatization
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U2 - 10.1080/17516234.2017.1334847
DO - 10.1080/17516234.2017.1334847
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85020387361
SN - 1751-6234
VL - 11
SP - 285
EP - 298
JO - Journal of Asian Public Policy
JF - Journal of Asian Public Policy
IS - 3
ER -