総合型地域スポーツクラブの育成をめぐる自治体政策過程

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This study focuses on the policy process of building Comprehensive Community Sports Clubs (CCSC) in municipalities and attempts to clarify the factors which promoted and prevented the policy adoption by applying a dynamic interdependent model. This model is a theory to clarify the process through which municipalities adopt a new policy and is made up of three factors, “measure inner conditions” , “mutual reference” , and “bandwagon competition” . If the national government intervenes, only bandwagon competition operates, and the other factors are not involved. This study considers the decisions involved with the basic sports promotion plan of 2000 through the intervention by the national government. Since there was national government intervention, only bandwagon competition among municipalities over building CCSC should have occurred with respect to the basic sports promotion plan of 2000. However, our results showed that bandwagon competition among municipalities did not necessarily occur even if the national government intervened. The inner conditions of each municipality, particularly human resources, greatly affected the policy adoption. For example, a municipality which had plenty of human resources adopted the policy early; meanwhile, a municipality which did not have enough human resources hesitated to adopt the policy