都道府県教育長人事の実証分析(III 研究報告)
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This paper aims to investigate the personnel affairs of the prefectural superintendent of education in Japan from 1956 to 2000. Unlike other managerial positions in local governments, in the case of the superintendent of education in Japan, the Ministry of Education would previously need to approve position decisions. This system was later abolished by decentralization reform. Therefore, more personnel transfers were expected to occur from the Ministry of Education to the office of the superintendent than for other policy areas. However, it is not clear whether there actually were more cases of personnel transfers from the central government to the prefectural superintendent as compared to those in other policy areas, for instance, from the National Land and Transportation Ministry to the chief of the prefectural civil engineering division, or from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the chief of general affairs. In this research, we have used an empirical analysis to solve the above question. Through analyzing the personnel record, we obtained the following findings. First, there were fewer personnel transfers from the central government to the prefectural superintendent than to the chief managers of other policy areas. This result contradicts our prediction. Second, unlike in other areas, in education there were more personnel transfers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs than from the presiding ministry. Why were there more cases of transfers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the prefectural superintendent than from the Ministry of Education? In this paper, this question is evaluated using case analysis. The present research indicates that the prefectural superintendent of education tends to come from the Ministry of Internal Affairs when the vice-governor or chief of general affairs has replaced loan employees from the Ministry of Internal Affairs with local government officers. These results suggest that there are fewer personnel transfers to the prefectural superintendent of education from the central government than any other chief of division in the prefecture. Although the personnel affairs of the prefectural superintendent of education were centralized in theory, they differed in practice. Generally, it is believed that the educational administration of the central government has a greater influence than any other policy area. The existence of the board of education system has strengthened this influence of the central government, particularly that of the Ministry of Education. However, the results of this study contradict these common perceptions.
- 日本教育行政学会の論文
- 2007-10-12