Action Research of Regional Revitalization with Outsourcing of Administration Affairs

－The Empirical Study of Kochi Prefecture－

Abstract

Local governments nowadays are requested to carry out the administrative reform to solve their severe financial situation and to vitalize the local economy at the same time. As the reduction of their expenditure to cope with the administrative reform should cause the decline of the local economy, it is difficult to implement the administrative reform and the regional revitalization simultaneously. This study proposes the regional revitalization model which activate the local economy by outsourcing of the administrative affairs to the companies, NPOs, etc. in the area. The model was implemented at the Kochi prefectural government. The author was in charge of the implementation in the prefectural government and was devoted to the improvement of the model. The study was therefore a kind of action research. The implementation of the model shows us the effects, that is, the revitalization of the economy such as job creation, the activation of public private collaboration, and the administrative reform such as the reduction of expenditure including personnel expenses in the model. The model is applicable to every local government as the validity was checked at the Kochi prefecture without any peculiar condition.