<個人論文>地方分権改革下における自治体教育政策過程 : 少人数教育を事例としたイヴェント･ヒストリー分析

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the mechanism of the Japanese educational policy-making after the decentralization to local govemment, using a statistical model ( Event History Analysis ). The paper focuses on the policy process of class size reduction policy of local governments from 1999 to 2004. Before the current push towards decentralization of educational administration, which has begun since 2000 local governments did not have the autonomy to adopt a class size reduction policy. However, after decentralization, class size reduction policy has become one of the educational policy areas where local govemnents can exercise increasing autonomy.// Due to this context previous studies discussed the presence of political factors and fiscal factors, But it did not study how the factors affect the process of class size reduction policy of local governments. So, this study explores the condition that political and fiscal factors affects the adopting the class size reduction policy. A lot of studies which tried to explore the mechanism of policy diffusion adopt this model, so this paper also adopts it.// The findings are that followings. As the political factors, the term of mayor affects the process. The Govemment Party Parliamentary Seat Ratio did not affect the process statistically. As the financial factors. The financial capability index and real balance ratio affect the process, This article is from the perspective of macro analysis to be conducted in the local governments'political and financial environment. Though under the decentralization, the demonstration of the implementation of education policy is an important issue, this study contributed to the accumulation of that