Public involvement in social policy reform: Seen from the perspective of Japan's elderly-care insurance scheme
Public involvement in social policy reform: Seen from the perspective of Japan's elderly-care insurance scheme
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DOI：
10.1017/s0047279400006140
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发表时间：
2001-01-01
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2
通讯作者：
Eto, M
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作者：
Eto, M
在过去的几十年里，日本经历了巨大的人口变化。为了应对老龄化社会的需要，政府制定了《老年人长期护理保险法》，从2000年4月1日起实施。这项新立法被认为是一种政治妥协，以安抚两股强烈反对的力量：改革派和守旧派。在改革的起草过程中，出现了包括普通市民和小规模自治团体的市长在内的新的政治参与者。两个公民行动团体参与了改革过程，并成功地在政策制定中反映了他们的偏好。支持新制度的市长们开始改革社会福利管理制度，挑战传统的地方政治。本文将重点介绍其中一些团体，以及他们如何改变了日本的政治环境。报告的结论是，他们的政治活动不仅有助于促进社会政策改革，而且有助于振兴这个国家的政治。
Japan has undergone drastic demographic changes in the past few decades. To cope with the needs of being an ageing society, the government has enacted a Long-term Care Insurance Law for the elderly that was implemented from I April 2000, The new legislation was conceived as a political compromise to appease two strongly opposed forces: reformists and the old guard. In the process of drafting reform, new political players, including ordinary citizens and mayors of small-scale municipal governments, have emerged. Two citizen action groups participated in the reform process, and succeeded in reflecting their preferences in its policymaking. The mayors who supported the new system started reforming social welfare administration systems, challenging traditional local politics. This article focuses on a few of these groups and how they have changed the Japanese political scene. It concludes that their political activities have contributed not only to promoting social policy reform, but also to revitalising politics in this country.