Masao Kikuchi

Japan

Associate Professor, School of Business Administration, Meiji University

Managing Editor, Asian Review of Public Administration

Expertise: Decentralization Management, Public-Private Partnership, Performance Management, Local Public Finance, Crisis and Contingency Management


Credentials

Academics

Ph.D in Political Science (2008), Meiji University, Japan

Bachelor in Political Science (2011), School of Political Science, Meiji University


Relevant Work Experience

Associate Professor, School of Business Administration, Meiji University, 2011-present
Assistant Professor, School of Business Administration, Meiji University, 2001-2008Research Fellow, Institute of Administrative Management, 2003-2006


Publications

Kikuchi, Masao (2010). "Public Policy Process and Citizens Participation in Japan" and "Performance Management Reform in Japan” in Evan Berman, M. Jae Moon and Heung Suk Choi eds. (2010), Handbook of Public Administration in East Asia. CRC Press.

_____________ (2010). "Fiscal Retrenchment and Local Public Finance Reforms in Japan: In Search of Sustainable Local Public Finance" in EROPA Local Government Centre ed. (2010). Local Governance Under Stress: Fiscal Retrenchment and Expanding Public Demands on Government. EROPA Local Government Centre

Kikuchi, Masao and Akira Nakamura (2008). "Education, Agenda Setting and Enforcement: Leading Roles of Local Government in Environmental Governance in Japan" in Asian Review of Public Administration, Vol. 20, Nos. 1-2


Affiliations

Member, American Society for Public Administration, 2008-present

Member, Asian Association of Public Administration, 2010-present


Other Contributions

Member, Research Committee on Budgetary System Reform, National Policy Unit, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of JAPAN, 2010-2011


Member, Research Committee on Market Testing Development in Local Government, Cabinet Office, Government of JAPAN, 2008-present


Lecturer,  JICA related training course on local governance

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