Theoretical and practical Analysis concerning the Decentralization Return

在这个项目中，我们制作了关于最近分权改革的数据库。通过此次改革，取消了代理委托职能，并将其重新分配为自治职能和法定委托职能。国家介入和解决国家与地方政府冲突的制度也逐步建立起来。我们收集了大量的相关资料，包括官方文件（分权委员会建议、委员会会议纪要等）和其他非正式文件，这些都是在改革过程中制作和使用的。我们将这些文件按照日期、会议名称、起草者、目前开放的可能性等几项进行分类整理，然后存入电脑。通过这个数据库，我们可以方便地检索到有关改革或那些文件的信息。在未来，研究人员将能够使用这个数据库，以分析最近的权力下放改革。另一方面，各调查员利用文献资料和数据库对改革进行了分析。作为研究成果，研究者们发表了论文和专著。本研究的一个特点是我们从行政法和公共行政两个角度对改革进行了分析。这两个学科不仅在这个项目中，而且在政府分权改革本身中都是相互合作和影响的。这可能会影响这些学科的发展进程。我们开始分析行政法或自治的问题，特别是国家与自治的关系问题，这些问题以前很少被承认，但在最近的改革中被发现。

During this project we have made the database about the recent decentralization reform. By this reform, the agency-delegated functions(Kikan-inin-jimu) are abolished and are reallocated the self-government functions (Jichi-jimu) and the statutory entrusted functions(Hotei-jyutaku-jimu). And the systems of the state involvement and of the conflict resolution between state and local governments are newly established. We gathered plenty of related material, including official documents (the Decentralization Committee recommendation, Proceedings of the committee etc.) and other informal documents, which were made and used in the reforming process. We have classified these documents and put them in order according to several items, date, the name of conferences, drafter and present possibility of openness etc. and then put it into computer. By this database, we can easily search the information about the reform or those documents. In future, researchers will be able to use this database, in order to analyze the recent decentralization reform.On the other hand each investigator analyzed the reform using the documents and the database. As the fruits of the research the investigators published articles and monographs. One of the characters of this research is that we analyzed the reform from both standpoints of administrative law and of public administration. These both disciplines cooperated and influenced each other, not only in this project but also in the governmental decentralization reform itself. This may influence the course of the development of these disciplines.And we began to analyze the issues on the administrative law or the self-government low about the relation between state and self-government, which had hardly been acknowledged but were found out in the recent reform.