Japanese

Academic Year	2024Year	School/Graduate School	School of Economics Economics Evening Course
Lecture Code	G8345100	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	特別講義（地域政策論）
Subject Name （Katakana）	トクベツコウギ（チイキセイサクロン）
Subject Name in English	Special Lectures(Regional Policy)
Instructor	SHIBATA HIROKI
Instructor (Katakana)	シバタ　ヒロキ
Campus	Higashi-Senda	Semester/Term	2nd-Year,  Second Semester,  Second Semester
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(2nd) Thur13-14：Higashi-Senda Lecture Rm M304
Lesson Style	Lecture	Lesson Style (More Details)
Credits	2.0	Class Hours/Week		Language of Instruction	J : Japanese
Course Level	2 : Undergraduate Low-Intermediate
Course Area（Area）	24 : Social Sciences
Course Area（Discipline）	04 : Management
Eligible Students
Keywords	regional approaches to global and national social issues, EBPM (evidence-based policy making), policy management, declining birthrate, settlement issues, relevant populations, concept of the regionregional approaches to global and national social issues, EBPM (evidence-based policy making), policy management, declining birthrate, settlement issues, relevant populations, concept of the region
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Class Objectives /Class Outline	In general, "Regional Policy" can be defined as understanding local problems, designing policy proposals to solve them, making decisions, and implementing policies through collaboration and cooperation among local actors. However, its content has been undergoing major changes in recent years. First, social issues at the global and national level have come to have a close relationship with regions. For example, there is a growing recognition that policies that approach communities from a local perspective are effective in addressing various social issues such as climate change and decarbonization, waste issues and the circular economy, gender gaps, declining birthrates, stable employment and poverty. At the same time, local governments are being asked to improve their ability of policy-making. High policy making skills are required in order to correctly recognize regional issues from the data in front of us and create effective measures. In particular, for EBPM (evidence-based policy making), we use policy analysis methods such as collecting evidence, considering multiple policy alternatives, selecting evaluation criteria, predicting results, deciding and implementing policies, and verifying effects. The ability to understand and steadily implement these is required. In addition, in order to logically ensure the validity and purposefulness of measures at the project level, it is necessary to consider at least the three layers of "vision," "strategy," and "project" at the planning stage. The importance of such policy management is also high. This lecture will mainly focus on regional population issues (settlement issues, declining birthrate issues, relevant population issues), and students will learn about the effectiveness of regional approaches in solving social issues, as well as the theory and practice of EBPM and policy management for this purpose.
Class Schedule	lesson1 Orientation lesson2 Regional involvement with global and national social issues lesson3 Fundamentals of policy analysis and policy management lesson4 Japanese declining birthrate problem and actual situation in region lesson5 Structural analysis of regional birth rates lesson6 Extraction of factors thati nfluence birth rate(regional industry, regional economy) lesson7 Extraction of factors that influence birth rate(city planning) lesson8 Extraction of factors that influence birth rate(local community) lesson9 Making of declining birthrate policies based on facts lesson10 Actual status of local settlement and migration,structuring of hope lesson11 Extracting factors that influence settlement/migration lesson12 Making of settlement policy based on facts lesson13 What is “relevant population”? lesson14 Policy making to expand the “relevant population” lesson15 Effectiveness of “the concept of region” in policy
Text/Reference Books,etc.	handout made by teacher
PC or AV used in Class,etc.
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Learning techniques to be incorporated
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	thinking more deeply about the content explained in each lecture
Requirements	none
Grading Method	The willingness to participate in class discussions (30 points) and the content of the report (70 points) will be evaluated based on the depth of awareness of the issues and the novelty and development of the viewpoints.
Practical Experience	Experienced
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it	This lecture is carried out by researcher of the local think-tank (Chugoku Regional Innovation Research Center), specialized in the local policy formation support. SDGs_8 SDGs_11
Message	The ultimate purpose of this lecture is the effectiveness of the "concept of the region" in solving social issues. The content of the lecture will be useful not only for those aspiring to work in local government, but also for business people and NPO employees who live in the local community and are interested in local sustainability.The lecture will provide a fact-based analysis of the actual situation, identification of issues, and approaches to countermeasures.
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