"Local governance in Japan : the change of public hospital"s management as an example" Yasukuni IWAGAMI This article deals with the local governance in japan, especiality forcus on the change of public hospital's management as an example. This article showed that the financial status can be improved by the introduction of the desighnated manager system to reinforcement of the governance. "The shift from first to second generation of governance: consideration for the emerging trend of governance network theory" Kentaro KOGURE Scine the early 1990's, the concept of governance has been in fashion in political science. After two decades, governance fas still been useful framework for analyzing the political change in the public policy process. Although governance has been valid tool kit for analyzing the policy process, it has examined thotoughly from every angle since its debut. For instance, governance process means that many privite actors partcilate in the crucial problem in governance. The second generation of governance theory, which was mainly leaded by two Danish scholars, Eva Sorensen and Jacob Torfing, has been forcused on this issue. In this paper I will deal with the second generation and review the latest trends in the governance theory.
