地方自治体における外郭団体の評価 : 先行研究の整理と総務省の方針

Abstract

This paper aims to consider the consistency between the policy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the previous studies about the performance measurement in local affiliated organizations. According to the previous studies, various evaluation criteria, such as publicness, efficiency or contribution to the local governments, are required for the performance measurement in local affiliated organizations. Local affiliated organizations have been often established in local governments, for the needs of introduction of the private sector vitalization. However, the impact of the bubble burst caused local affiliated organizations to reconsider what they should be, since the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications published the guideline about local affiliated organizations in 1999. In addition, local governments need to evaluate or assessment the performance of local affiliated organizations. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has published several guidelines of performance measurement in local affiliated organizations over the last ten years. Performance measurement policies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications roughly agree with the previous studies about the performance measurement in local affiliated organizations. On the other hand, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications entrusts the setting of specific evaluation criteria and evaluation method to local governments. Local governments need to make effective performance measurement systems of their own and of the local affiliated organizations, which is to say that we need to study about the performance measurement systems at the local governments and their affiliated organizations. It needs to be further explored about the performance measurement systems which are actually implemented in the local governments and local affiliated organizations.