Social Security Reforms and Local Governments

本研究的目的是反思地方政府和其他地方实体在社会保障计划的政策制定和管理方面的作用，如强制性公共健康保险计划、公共援助和社会服务（包括照顾受抚养的老年人和残疾人）。随着社会保障制度改革的不断深入，地方政府的作用越来越重要，对其作用进行法律的分析和反思是必要的。本文在对日本近年来社会保障改革进行研究分析的基础上，通过收集德国和法国的相关书籍、论文和文献，对德国和法国的社会保障法律的制度进行了比较法律的研究，以期从中得到有益的启示。在每个国家对德国和法国的官员和官员进行了采访，并收集了文件。还对日本医疗保健计划部门、国家健康保险计划部门和公共援助部门的行政官员进行了采访。这些在两个国家和日本的访谈之所以如此富有成效，是因为获得了许多仅通过分析论文和文件难以获得的信息。所有研究人员都发表了论文和一本书，这是这项研究计划的结果。

The Aim of this research is to make reflections on roles of Local Governments and other Local Entities regarding to policy making and administration of Social Security Schemes such as compulsory public health insurance schemes, public assistance and social services (including care of dependent elders and handicapped people). Roles of Local Governments become much more important as results of recent successive reforms of Social Security Schemes, thus legal analysis and reflections of their roles are necessary. Besides of researches and analysis on recent Japanese Social Security Reforms, comparative legal researches on German and French Social Security Legal Schemes were accomplished by collecting books, papers and documents of these countries, in order to get useful suggestions. Interviews to German and French seculars and officers and gathering of documents were done in each country Interviews to Japanese administrative officers in the section of medical care schemes, the one of national health insurance scheme and the one of public assistance were also done. These interviews in two countries and in Japan were so fruitful because a lot of information which would be difficultly get only by analyzing papers and documents was obtained. All investigators published papers and a book which are results of this research program.