Abstract

In Japan, the study of public policies confronts many problems. The first, many students use same ‘jargons’in different meanings. One speaks of policies in political contexts, the other in administrative and economical context, and they don’t know they are speaking of the different sides of policies each other. The second ploblem is the ‘inter-disciplinary nature ’of the public policy studies. The wider the field of the studies become, the more students in different diciplines come(foe example economics, politics, sosiology, law, public and business administration, engineering etc.). So, there is no agreement upon how to study public policies. The third ploblem is that there comes new theme of the study of public policies. Day by day, so many themes and topics to study come in this field of study that we can’t follow them.

This ssession 5 argues those ploblems. Taking up ‘the identity crisis’of the study of the public policies, Professor Mayama he makes the new framework of the study and identifies meanings of many ‘jargons’of the study of public policies.

Proffesor Amano finds the new perspective of the policy-making process in local government, he calls it‘Seisaku-homu’‘Saisaku-homu’approachs the policyprocess from the legislation of local government,understands laws of central government from the view point of citizens, and evaluates legal proceedings.

Both contribute to make clarification of ‘the state of the arts’of the study of the public policy in Japan.