Intersection of Public Administration Theories in Policy Evaluation

−Towards reconsideration −

Abstract

  Policy evaluation was introduced in Japan in the late 1990s. According to the guidelines of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications（2001）, policy evaluation has three purposes.（1）To make public administration accountable to the people,（2）to realize efficient and high-quality administration and（3）to shift to results-oriented administration. In order to consider the stable operation of policy evaluation with these purposes, the study of public administration tried to interpret policy evaluation from the perspectives of administrative responsibility theory, administrative management theory, and NPM theory. However, interpretations are difficult. Here, I would like to look back on the history of the efforts of public administration and consider why policy evaluation has been reexamined from 2021. The purpose of this paper is to explore the conditions for successful reexamination of policy evaluation in practice.