2021 Volume 61 Issue 4 Pages 14-26
This case study aimed to reveal the characteristics of the development of the official daycare business and local politics in Hoya city in the 1960s–1970s. This study focused on strategic multi-sector collaboration between organizations and discovered the following. Hoya city began the daycare business “Hiiragi Kyoshitsu”(HK, hereinafter) in the 1960s to fulfill a community welfare policy. HK developed into a business with infant support objectives until the 1970s. HK was founded by collaborating with citizen organizations. In addition, HK procured the resources for development from outside organizations. The collaboration between such organizations and resource purveyance was supposed to fulfill the policies of Hoya city’s “reformist local government.” This case study indicates that it is possible to evaluate a “local initiative” as a local political precedent.
