公立保育所民営化政策形成過程における政策学習：東京都国立市を事例として

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　The purpose of this research is to examine what kind of policy learning was done in the policymaking process of the privatization of public nursery schools, and how it affected policy choice. Since the 1990s, regulatory reform of public nursery schools was considered, and efforts to privatize the public nursery school were promoted. However, implementation of nursery care by diverse entities, which was initially anticipated in the privatization policy, was not realized. In Kunitachi City, Tokyo, although the privatization of public nursery schools was considered by the mayor who was aiming for administrative and fiscal reform, it was decided that only one school was to be privatized. Additionally, the management entity of the private nursery school was limited to social welfare corporations. It was the privatization policy and lessons of other local governments that influenced policy choice. In the process of learning, emphasis was placed on the quality of childcare rather than the fiscal effect of privatization. Two institutional factors influenced this learning: (1) policy venue and (2) policy legacies.