2000 Volume 2000 Pages 2000-1-009-
The administrative reforms which Mie Prefecture has striven to implement since 1995 include unprecedented efforts towards introducing a project performance evaluation system into core administration policies not involving methods of reform used in previous years. The author has been involved with these efforts in a position of responsibility in administrative affairs since their inception.
In this manuscript, the author, by following from within the Mie Prefectural Government the progress of the introduction of the project performance evaluation system, first clarifies the conflicts that exist among bureaucratic organizations such as a government body consisting both of employees who resist the introduction of such a system and those who make reform efforts on their own. The author also discusses the subject of the phases of development that should be followed in the evolution of the system and the concerns of “reform-minded offices”, and touches upon the necessary foundation for making effective practical policy evaluation.
Within this foundation is, first, the existence of a leader with faith in such a system. Second is the inherent ability for change latent within bureaucratic organizations-an inherent ability for such a system in administrative affairs. In this manuscript the author considers how to foster this ability for change without crushing it, and contends that the effectiveness of policy evaluation can not be excepted without the improvement of current conditions within bureaucratic organizations.
