RELATIONS BETWEEN BUREAUCRACY AND CABINET

Abstract

Japan’s bureaucracy is a kind of independent and powerful part in its political system. In British, which almost has the same political system as Japan, its civil servants are smoothly realize the order from their political minister. Why and how does this difference appear? There are a lot of factors that make this happen, and the main reason is the difference between each count ry’s party systems. Though the two countries have almost the same electoral systems, their party systems are so different. In Britain, there is a mature two-party system, parties’ leaders control their parties’ resources and distribute them to their candidates. On the contrast, in Japan, before 1993, there was a predominant-party system, and a juvenile two-party system is being built up, nowadays.