Investigating public governance models in Slovenia and Japan

ǂa ǂcomparative survey on state and local government

Aleksander Aristovnik (Author), Kudo Hiroko (Author), Eva Murko (Author), Tadateru Sugawa (Author), Dejan Ravšelj (Author)

Abstract

Public administration and governance must adapt to the changing socio-economic environment, improving quality, process efficiency, and collaboration. Hence, public administration and public governance models have been significantly modified multiple times, resulting in differences in public governance practices. This paper examines different public governance models’ principles in Slovene and Japanese public administration. It quantifies elements based on the models' principles and applies them to an empirical case using a survey of 55 Slovene and 135 Japanese public managers. The independent samples t-test examines the differences in characteristics of public governance practices between state administration and local government in Slovenia and Japan. The results show that state administration institutions in both countries are strongly characterised by the (Neo)Weberian model’s principles, while Slovenia's local government leans towards Digital-era governance (DEG) and good governance (GG) principles. Japan's state and local administrations show equal presence of New public management (NPM), DEG, and GG models. The study aims to bridge a research gap by providing new findings on how different public governance models can be found at various Slovene and Japanese public administration levels and offers insights for public managers and policymakers for future public administration reforms.

Keywords

public governance models;comparative analysis;Slovenia;Japan;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2023
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UL FU - Faculty of Administration
UDC:	35(497.4)(520)
COBISS:	176370179
ISSN:	2559-6489
Views:	24
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Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary keywords:	modeli javnega upravljanja;primerjalna analiza;Slovenija;Japonska;
Type (COBISS):	Article
Pages:	str. 6-25
Issue:	ǂIss. ǂ41
Chronology:	2023
DOI:	10.24818/amp/2023.41-01
ID:	21520902