The aim of the present paper was to determine how small government policies have changed the management of Japanese prefectural museums since 2006. To reconstruct the budget positions of local governments, the Koizumi Government advocated a policy of ‘small’ government and cuts in the costs of public facilities. One example is the introduction of the designated manager system (DMS) into museums. The DMS is a form of new public management, enabling private managers to manage public facilities. Using stochastic frontier analysis, this paper investigates the impact of the introduction of the DMS on the efficiency of museums.

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新公共管理对日本博物馆效率的影响*

本文的目的是确定自2006年以来小型政府政策如何改变了日本县博物馆的管理。为了重建地方政府的预算状况，小泉政府倡导了“小型”政府政策并削减了政府开支。公共设施。一个示例是将指定的管理者系统（DMS）引入博物馆。DMS是新的公共管理的一种形式，使私人经理可以管理公共设施。使用随机前沿分析，本文研究了DMS的引入对博物馆效率的影响。