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The resin (A) may include only one type ofrepeating unit which has an alicyclic hydrocarbon having a hydroxyl group, and may include two or more types. 

In a case where the resin (A) contains a repeating unit which has a hydroxyl group, the content (in a case where a plurality of types are contained, the total thereof) of the repeating units is preferably 1 to 40 mo! % with respect to all of the repeating units in the resin (A), more preferably 1 to 30 mo! %, and even more preferably 3 to 20 mo! %. 

It is possible for the resin (A) in the present invention to have a repeating unit which does not exhibit acid decom› posability and which has an alicyclic hydrocarbon structure which does not have a polar group (for example, the acid group, hydroxyl group, or cyano group) as the repeating unit which is represented by the general formula (1 ). In this manner, the solubility of the resin may be suitably adjusted when using the developer including the organic solvent. Examples of the repeating unit include a repeating unit represented by the general formula (1-3). 

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In the general formula (1-3), Rs represents a hydrocarbon group having at least one ring structure and having no polar group. 

Ra represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or a -CH 2 ---0-Ra 2 group, wherein Ra 2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an acyl group. Ra is preferably a 

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hydrogen atom, a methyl group, a hydroxymethyl group, or a trifluoromethyl group, and particularly preferably a hydro› gen atom or a methyl group. 

The ring structure contained in Rs includes a monocyclic hydrocarbon group and a polycyclic hydrocarbon group. Examples of the monocyclic hydrocarbon group include a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, such as a cyclopentyl group, a cyclohexyl group, a cycloheptyl group or a cyclooctyl group, and a cycloalkenyl group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, such as a cyclohexenyl group. The mono› cyclic hydrocarbon group is preferably a monocyclic hydro› carbon group having 3 to 7 carbon atoms, and more pref› erably a cyclopentyl group or a cyclohexyl group. 

The polycyclic hydrocarbon group includes a ring system hydrocarbon group and a cross-linked cyclic hydrocarbon group. Examples of the ring system hydrocarbon group include a bicyclohexyl group and a perhydronaphthalenyl group. Examples of the cross-linked cyclic hydrocarbon ring include a bicyclic hydrocarbon ring such as a pinane ring, a bornane ring, a norpinane ring, a norbornane ring or a bicyclooctane ring (for example, a bicyclo[2.2.2]octane ring, or a bicyclo[3.2.l]octane ring), a tricyclic hydrocarbon ring such as a homobrendane ring, an adamantane ring, a $_{tricyclo[5.2.l.0}$2• $^{6}$]decane ring or a tricyclo[4.3.l.l 2•s]unde› cane ring, and a tetracyclic hydrocarbon ring such as a tetracyclo[4.4.0.1 2 •s.1 7 • $^{10}$]dodecane ring and a perhydro-1, 4-methano-5,8-methanonaphthalene ring. Further, the cross- linked cyclic hydrocarbon ring also includes a condensed cyclic hydrocarbon ring, for example, a condensed ring formed by fusing a plurality of 5- to 8-membered cycloal- kane rings, such as a perhydronaphthalene ( decalin) ring, a perhydroanthracene ring, a perhydrophenanthrene ring, a perhydroacenaphthene ring, a perhydrofluorene ring, a per- hydroindene ring and a perhydrophenalene ring. 

Preferred examples of the cross-linked cyclic hydrocar› bon ring include a norbornyl group, an adamantyl group, a bicyclooctanyl group and a tricyclo[5.2.l.0 2 • $^{6}$]decanyl group. More preferred examples of the cross-linked cyclic hydrocarbon ring include a norbornyl group and an adaman› tyl group. 

These alicyclic hydrocarbon groups may have a substitu› ent, and preferred examples of the substituent include a halogen atom, an alkyl group, a hydroxyl group substituted with a hydrogen atom, and an amino group substituted with a hydrogen atom. The halogen atom is preferably a bromine atom, a chlorine atom, or a fluorine atom, and the alkyl group is preferably a methyl group, an ethyl group, a butyl group, or at-butyl group. The alkyl group may further have a substituent, and the substituent which the alkyl group may further have includes a halogen atom, an alkyl group, a hydroxyl group substituted with a hydrogen atom, and an amino group substituted with a hydrogen atom. 

Examples of the substituent for the hydrogen atom include an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, a substituted methyl group, a substituted ethyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, and an aralkyloxycarbonyl group. The alkyl group is preferably an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; the substituted methyl group is preferably a methoxymethyl group, a methoxythiomethyl group, a ben› zyloxymethyl group, a t-butoxymethyl group, or a 2-methoxyethoxymethyl group; the substituted ethyl group is preferably a 1-ethoxyethyl group or a l-methyl-1- methoxyethyl group; the acyl group is preferably an ali› phatic acyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, such as a formyl group, an acetyl group, a propionyl group, a butyryl group, an isobutyryl group, a valeryl group, and a pivaloyl 

