2013 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 3-19
In Japan, the Policy Evaluation System was introduced to the administration in 2001. This system was launched to improve the administration that traditionally focused on establishing laws or getting resources, when a standard guideline on policy evaluation was formulated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
When the system was finally legislated, it became firmly established in the policy management cycle (the PDCA cycle) of each ministry. In 2005, three years after the enforcement of the Government Policy Evaluation Act, the system was totally reviewed. It was later on decided that the functions of the Policy Evaluation System should be drastically enhanced as a result of the budget screening process in 2009.
However, there are several arguments concerning the Policy Evaluation System.
In my paper, I would like to find the cause of these arguments by looking back on the progress that the system has made and unveil its visions of the future.
