Course Name Year Term Period Faculty / Graduate School All Instructors Credits
50604:[2025 Spring]Multi-level Governance Ⅱ (P) 2025 Spring Fri4 College　Of　Policy　Science KAMIKUBO MASATO 2

Campus

OIC

Class Venue

AS465

Language

English

Course Outline and Method

This Course deals with sevaral policy areas and their policy-making processes. Firstly, the students will grasp basic knowledge of the specific issues of policy science:①fiscal policy and taxation;②welfare policy;③social security and old age society;④women's participation in society;⑤industrial policy;⑥ economic policy and monetary policy; ⑦enviroumental policy; ⑧free trade; ⑨energy policy; ⑩local administration; ⑪ education policy; ⑫imigration; ⑬ IT policy and space policy.

Secondly, in order to understand "reality" of policy and policy-making process,the students will focus on actors' behaviours and intractions, institutions, and obstacles of policy implementation.

In this course, Japanese case will be basically used as a case study. However, the students will be expected to introduce cases of their home countries. In this course, it will be beneficial to discuss similarities between Japan and other countries.

Each class will be conducted as follows:
1. Preparation:
The Instructor will uploads a video of lectures on OneDrive (approximately 30 minutes). Students should watch it and read journal or books on the reading list (Reading list will be passed to the students in the introductory session in the first week).

2. In the classroom, student will do groupwork to discuss the question related to the lecture and make five minutes presentation. The instructor will give comments to the presentations.

Student Attainment Objectives

To get a comprehensive understanding of sevaral policies and thier political process.

Recommended Preparatory Course

None

Course Schedule

Lecture/Instructor（When there are multiple instructors) Theme
Keyword, References and Supplementary Information

Introduction of course layout

Overview

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1

Fiscal Policy and Taxation

Budget deficit, consumption tax, fiscal investment and loan programme (FILP)

2

Welfare Policy

3 types of welfare states

3

Women's participation in society

International comparison of women's participation in politics and business

4

Industrial Policy

"Developmental state model", administrative guidance and Japan's high economic growth

5

Economic Policy and Monetary Policy

Keynsian policy, yen's depreciation policy and export industry, monetary easing policy

6

Environmental Policy

International and domestic politics of greenhouse effect gas issue, air pollution, water pollution, and recycling industrial wastes

7

Free Trade

Competion between countries over WTO, FTA, TPP, and protectionism

8

Energy Policy

International and domestic politics of oil, natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy

9

Local Administration and Decentralisation

Local government finance, local tax allocation methods, subsidies from central to local governments, shifting of tax revenues from the national to the regional level

10

Education Policy

Internationalisation of higher education in the world, competition between "conservative" and "liberal" over education

11

Imigration

Politics between imigration and nationalism, foreign labour issue

12

Good and Bad Aspects of Neoliberal policies

Administrative reform, deregulation, Widening gap between rich and poor

13

Public Administration for New Policy Issues

Policy-making and implementation of IT policy, artificial intelligence, and space policy .

14

Concluding session

Comprehensive understanding of public administration

Class Format

● classes on Face to Face basis,
● up to six sessions may be switched to Media basis (either live-streamed classes or on-demand classes).

Recommendations for Private Study

Please read the articles in newspapers and journals related to political process.

Grade Evaluation Method

Kind Percentage Grading Criteria etc.
Final Examination (Written) 0

Report Examination
(A report to be submitted by the unified deadline)		 0

Exams and/or Reports other than those stated above, and Continuous Assessment　
(Evaluation of Everyday Performance in Class)		 100

Attendance, report and performance in class

Grade Evaluation Method （Note）

None

Advice to Students on Study and Research Methods

Textbooks

Textbooks （Frequency of Use, Note）

Reference Books

Reference Books （Frequency of Use, Note）

Web Pages for Reference

How to Communicate with the Instructor In and Out of Class(Including Instructor Contact Information)

Learning Management System （manaba+R）,Talk with Students

Other Comments

英語基準学生以外の受講条件：TOEFL530（PBT)またはTOEIC660以上
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