Factors Affecting Social Welfare Policies Implemented by Municipalities

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the influence of municipality and citizen’s financial situation and environment on the implementation of municipal social welfare policy (here, family support·center project). In this research, I conducted quantitative empirical analysis to investigate its effect. The conclusions obtained by this analysis are: ①There is a tendency to make a choice “to implement the project” in the municipalities with many citizen needs, ②As the financial situation of the municipalities is better, they tend to implement the policy by directory management, ③Depending on the citizen’s financial situation, there is a tendency to select an operation method.