Abstract
This chapter analyses what resources, skills and contexts enable the prime minister to be predominant within an executive setting and, conversely, when and how prime ministers are disempowered and constrained by other actors within the executive. The chapter also assesses attempts by both British and Japanese prime ministers to increase their agency in the policymaking process. The chapter is organised into four sections. The first explores the legal and constitutional position of the Japanese and British prime minister. The second examines the institutions that directly support the prime minister, located in both countries within the prime minister’s official residence and the cabinet office. Third, the relationship between the prime minister and his or her cabinet ministers is explored. The fourth section analyses the bureaucracy as a potentially constraining force, an issue particularly important with reference to Japan. Throughout each section, the chapter assesses the results of administrative reform efforts to strengthen the power and resources of the prime minister within the executive in both countries.
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Burrett, T. (2023). Prime Ministerial Power and the Executive. In: Contemporary Prime Ministerial Leadership in Britain and Japan. Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44590-2_5
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