Policy Making Process in “Government Failure”

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine policy making processes in “Government Failure”, using ‘L' Analyse stratégique’ and the ‘arena’. Our basic assumption is that the repetition of ‘Government Failure’ is related to the problem of the attribution of ‘burdens’. Why and how is this? We will try to give an answer to those questions by studying three cases, the Construction of the bullet express train, the debt of the former Japan National Railway, and the Construction of industrial waste disposal plants. Our analysis reveals that the dysfunction of arenas is the main reason for ‘Government Failure’.