An interdisciplinary approach to "structural-reform type of governance" from a social constructivist perspective

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Japanese governmental system has undergone various significant reforms since the second half of the 1990s, which we see as the emergence of "structural-reform type of governance". In this interdisciplinary research project, we have analyzed such changes under the methodological framework of social constructivism. Utilizing chosen common research keywords for each year(2009 : participation, 2010 : responsibility/accountability, 2011 : relationship), we have examined several important aspects of "structural-reform type of governance" such as : citizen participation for city building, duty to explain, amendment of the Basic Act on Education, introduction of Saiban-in system, rights of the child.