Visit from Dr Joseph Drew and Dr Masato Miyazaki

On 24 Jun, Dr Joseph Drew of the University of Technology Sydney and Dr Masato Miyazaki of Saitama University visited the CLAIR Sydney office.

Dr Miyazaki recently published a work titled ‘Political Economy of Local Governments Behaviors – Dynamism of Local Public Finance System and Intergovernmental Relationships’. Similarly, Dr Miyazaki has a wealth of knowledge relating to Japanese local government system and its current state, and he is likewise very interested in the Australian local government system.Dr Drew is one of two co-authors of the recent publication, ‘Local Government in Australia: History, Theory and Public Policy’. While Dr Drew is an expert on the Australian local government system and its current state, he is very interested in the Japanese local government system as an adjunct professor at the Tokyo Metropolitan University.

We had a productive discussion regarding the common and different points of institutional local governance system and its implementation in Australia and Japan, and the potential ways to improve local public services in rural areas.

CLAIR Sydney will continue to work closely with academics with distinguished expertise to provide Japanese local governments with relevant and informative content, such as the common and different points of institutional local governance system and recent local governments’ policy topics in Oceania and Japan.

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