著者

村上 祐介

出版者

日本教育行政学会

雑誌

日本教育行政学会年報 (ISSN:09198393)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, pp.142-153, 2003-10-17 (Released:2018-01-09)

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Personnel transfer from the central government to the local government considered to be a case of the central government controlling the local government. On the contrary, there is also the view that the local government has the initiative. However, there has been little research on this theme concerning the superintendent. This research thus aims to understand personnel transfer from the central government to the level of superintendents in all prefectures with a particular focus on showing clearly how it has changed during the period between 1956-2000. The results of the research are as follows. (1) The 1950s had many bureaucrats in the Department of the Interior. The bureaucrats of the Department of the Interior decreased in number to the 1960s, however, while the bureaucrat of the Ministry of Education increased. (2) The 1970s saw the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Home Affairs increase in number, while the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Education decreased in number. (3) The central government's bureaucrats decreased in number and the local government's bureaucrats increased in number from the end of the 1970s. This tendency continues until the present. We note the following from these results: (1) When talented people in local government increase in number, especially during the after the end of the 1970s, we often see local government's bureaucrats inaugurated as superintendents. The view that the central government controls local government cannot explain this phenomenon. Concerning the superintendent of education, in the case of personnel transfer from the central government to the local government we can see that local government has an initiative rather than it simply being a matter of the control to the central government over local government. (2) Unlike other management of local governments, in the case of the superintendent of education, the Ministry of Education needs to approve position decisions. However, the influence of this recognition system was not seen from this research. Generally, it has been thought that the influence of educational administration of the central government is very strong, compared with other levels of administration. We can now see that more research is required concerning this question. This research has been from a macro view, though, and has some limits. More results may, however, be obtained by using micro approaches.