2012 Volume 68 Issue 5 Pages I_45-I_54
Along with promoting the decentralization of power, it is becoming common to address policies using Plan-Do-Check-Action (PDCA): a new situation has been created for local governments to set their own targets for policies in various areas independently and to evaluate themselves. Sufficient studies have not been performed to elucidate whether the accumulation of PDCA by this self-evaluation actually engenders proper implementation of policies. This study examines community renovation grants, which are used in various fields of community design throughout Japan and which have held PDCA as the requirement, and answers the question by examining trends toward self-evaluation of local governments comprehensively. We define the difference between an actual evaluation value and a target value as of the evaluation date as a divergence coefficient and analyzed them. Results show for the first time reported, the distinctive trends and problems in adaption and achievement of evaluation indicators depending on policy areas.
