自律性と活動量の対立

―コンピュータ・プログラム産業保護政策の所管をめぐる政治過程―

抄録

  This article analyzes a policy-making process for revised Japanese copyright law to add provision for computer software. The policy outcome of this process had been made through the conflict between the Agency for Cultural Affairs and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. The paper describes the conditions under which administrative conflicts, as a result of attempts to control new policy areas, arise and are settled. Previous research shows that such conflicts are viewed as administrative competition for additional resources. In order to modify this understanding, by introducing “autonomy” and “vigor,” the author argues, as previous studies have shown, that conflicts between both agencies pursuing vigor tend to lead to deadlocks and need arbitrators (e.g. politicians) to provide resolutions. Conversely, conflicts between agencies pursuing vigor and ones pursuing a degree of autonomy tend to be resolved without such arbitrators as policy outcomes satisfying both interests arise when the agencies’ goals are different.