Gyōsei Sasshin Kaigi

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The Gyōsei Sasshin Kaigi ( Japanese 行政 刷新 会議 , dt. About "Conference on the Renewal of Administration"; English Government Revitalization Unit , "unit to revitalize the government") was from 2009 to 2012 an institution of the Japanese central government located at the cabinet office Review of public budgets and administrations. It should strengthen the authority of parliament and cabinet over the state budget vis-à-vis the traditionally influential ministerial bureaucracy and facilitate the consolidation of the heavily deficient Japanese state budget by making the budget more transparent and disclosing the "waste" of public funds.

The Gyōsei Sasshin Kaigi was set up in 2009 following a decision by the Hatoyama Cabinet, whose Democratic Party had declared strengthening elected politicians vis-à-vis the ministerial officials to be a central goal when it came to power in 2009 (see Yukio Hatoyama # "From officials to the people" ) and had promised substantial savings to finance other election promises. The conference began its work in autumn 2009: In public hearings, it examined individual programs and projects for their necessity, their cost-effectiveness and administrative structure, the so-called jigyō shiwake ( 事業 仕 分 け , about "project classification"), in which officials and other recipients of public funds , e.g. B. Research funding, will be interviewed by the members of the conference. A department has also been set up to receive administrative reform proposals from citizens and the public service via the Internet and by post; the associated website was initially called Hatomimi ("Hato-Ohr") and was later renamed more neutral.

Gyōsei Sasshin Kaigi was chaired by the Prime Minister , while the vice-chairman was a specially appointed “Minister for Special Tasks” at the Cabinet Office. The remaining members were appointed by the Prime Minister, including in practice four other ministers and MPs as well as five representatives from business, trade unions and science. Working groups made up of members of parliament and external experts were set up to deal with individual subject areas. In a first round of hearings in 2009, 449 projects from ministries and central government agencies were examined, and three further rounds in 2010 examined self-governing bodies ( dokuritsu gyōsei hōjin ), non-profit bodies ( kōeki hōjin ) and the special budget ( tokubetsu kaikei ).

After the jigyō-shiwake, the conference made recommendations for cuts and savings in the budget; However, these were not binding for the drafting of the budget and only increase the political weight of the government's austerity plans. A bill in 2010 that would have strengthened the conference's legal position was not passed, given the government's loss of a majority in the second chamber of parliament. The Democratic Party's original election promise of 2009, several costly election promises such as B. to cover the introduction of child benefit, free high schools and highways entirely through savings in the budget - especially in administration and in large projects such as dam construction - has not come close to being achieved.

On the day of the renewed change of government in December 2012, the gyōsei sasshin kaigi was dissolved in this form by the newly appointed Abe II cabinet .

literature

Yoichi Funabashi, Koichi Nakano (Eds.): The Democratic Party of Japan in Power: Challenges and Failures. Routledge 2016, ISBN 978-1138638709 .

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  1. ↑ Kantei , Cabinet resolution of September 18, 2009: 行政 刷新 会議 の 設置 に つ い て
  2. ↑ Kantei, Cabinet resolution of December 26, 2012: 「行政 刷新 会議 の 設置 に つ い て」 等 の 廃 止 に つ い て