2016 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 17-30
The purpose of this article is to look back on the history of 20 years of performance evaluation system in Japanese local government from a viewpoint of the research and practice, and try to forecast the future of the evaluation system. First, the reasons why the utilization on the evaluation system mainly focused on internal resource-management were explained from environment surrounding the local government around the year 2000 when local government evaluation gained power. Second, the problems of the evaluation system that such factors caused, the prescription for solving them and their limits were discussed. Final part indicates discussions on the recent trend of the evaluation system and the implications for the future vision of the evaluation system.
