NEARY, Ian
Les services du Premier ministre japonais face aux grands ministères - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1997
The composition and functioning of the office and cabinet of the Prime Minister reflect the difficulties that the Prime Minister has in governing, due notably to the fact that power is shared with administrative vice-ministers. Any reinforcement of the authority of the Prime Minister is carried out via a substantial reform of these two bodies whose missions intersect and, more importantly, whose personnel are one and the same, being in large part composed of civil servants who remain rather too closely attached to their initial administrative origins. This system, which represents a total devolution of power, while having in former times proved worthy, no longer in this day and age allows the government and its head, the Prime Minister, to respond to the dverse internal crises which arise
Les services du Premier ministre japonais face aux grands ministères - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1997
The composition and functioning of the office and cabinet of the Prime Minister reflect the difficulties that the Prime Minister has in governing, due notably to the fact that power is shared with administrative vice-ministers. Any reinforcement of the authority of the Prime Minister is carried out via a substantial reform of these two bodies whose missions intersect and, more importantly, whose personnel are one and the same, being in large part composed of civil servants who remain rather too closely attached to their initial administrative origins. This system, which represents a total devolution of power, while having in former times proved worthy, no longer in this day and age allows the government and its head, the Prime Minister, to respond to the dverse internal crises which arise
