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1 CABINET AND BUREAUCRACY
Group 3 -Mochammad Fajar Akbar -Bacharudin W. Ashari Mokobombang -Adinda Mardania -Akbar Rumandung -Patricia Kuntari -Sisilia Mariestha -Sarah Ervina -Marina -Naufal Fakhri Erlangga

2 Executive Power and Popular Sovereignty
Constitution Parliamentary System Head of the Majority Party House of Representative This may Influence: Legislative Judicative

3 The Designation of the Prime Minister
Diet Resolution The Two Houses Designation Runoff LDP’s Reign

4 Formation of The Cabinet
Prime Minister forms the Cabinet Article 2 of Cabinet Law: PM can appoint 20 Ministers Article 68: Majority of Ministers must be Diet members Article 66: All ministers, including PM, must be civilians Certain customs dictation

5 Formation of The Cabinet
Distribution of power within the ruling party Katayama Tetsu (Socialist PM, 1947): Failed Ishibashi Tanzan (LDP PM, 1956): Succeed Appoint the party’s top officers Together with chairman of LDP Assembly of the House of Councilors assist PM in forming cabinet lineup Three LDP officers chosen from each three largest factions. Each faction chooses its candidates for cabinet post

6 Cabinet Responsibility
The concept of Cabinet’s Collective Responsibility Under the Meiji Constitution Cabinet is responsible to the Diet State ministers’ individual responsibility as advisers to the emperor Under the present Constitution Cabinet ministers have the right and obligation to report to the Diet on national and international affairs as well as to attend Diet sessions Also, members of cabinet can be forced to resign by the House of Representatives The Diet supersedes the Cabinet in many aspects: -Enactment of laws -Budget decisions-Treaties approval

7 Cabinet solidarity and the powers of prime minister
The role of prime minister in the cabinet Prime Minister other’s power: Represents the cabinet in submitting bills Minister crucial countersigned Prime Minister > Minister previlaged The rights of Minister

8 Cabinet Authority Manage Foreign Affairs
Function: Manage Foreign Affairs Conclude treaties (with approval of the Diet) Administer civil service Prepare the budget and present it to the Diet Administer the law : conduct affairs of state Granting of general amnesty, special amnesty, commutation of punishment, reprieve and restoration of rights Powers Right to submit amendments to the Constitution Expenditure of a reserve fund Convocation of the House of Councillors in emergency situation Convocation of extraordinary sessions of the Diet Designation of the Chief Justice Supreme Court Submission of final accounts and presentation of reports to the Diet and the people of on the state of national finances Appointment of the justices of the Supreme Court and the judges of inferior courts Advice &approval for all acts of the emperor in matters of state

9 Cabinet Meetings The agenda:
General business concerning important matters of national administration Promulgation of laws or treaties Bills to be submitted to the Diet Cabinet orders Personnel Other matters

10 Cabinet Meetings Rules of the seating:
The prime minister sits between the chief cabinet secretary (left) and the minister of justice (right). The heads of other state ministers follow on the left and right. Other state ministers follow in like manner according to the alphabetical order of their names. The director general of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau and two deputy chief cabinet secretaries sit at a separate table to the rear.

11 Cabinet Meetings The authorities
Prime minister can call extraordinary meetings as necessary Cabinet Secretariat organizes and discusses the agenda in advance through meetings with the administrative vice-ministers of the various ministries and agencies

12 Cabinet Organization and Coordination (highest administrative body)
The Cabinet Secretariat – manage the general internal administrative affairs The agenda of cabinet meetings: Coordinates the activities and statements of the various ministries and agencies Completes much of the groundwork involved in the implementation of major government policies The Cabinet Legislation Bureau – providing an assistance relating to the preparation and passage of bills and other legislative matters

13 The Ministries and Agencies the head of each ministry is appointed by the prime minister
The primary organs, as of June 1988 are Prime Minister’s Office and 12 ministries: Justice Foreign Affairs Finance Education Health and Welfare Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries International Trade and Industry Transport Posts and Telecommunication Labor Construction Home Affairs

14 Development of the bureaucracy
History of Japanese bureaucracy dates back to the Meiji era In July a civil service examination was instituted The government adopted the practice of according preferential treatment to graduates of imperial university=Tokyo University In March 1889 the second cabinet of Yamada Aritomo issued new ordinances regarding the status and disciplining of public servants The influence of those bureaucrats grew rapidly in the early part of the twentieth century, and in time the bureaucracy along with the military, and the clan-dominated Meiji oligarchy The system for fostering, appointing, and compensating civil servants that developed in the Meiji and Taisho eras succeeded in filling the bureaucracy with highly talented diligent, and energetic personnel

15 The bureaucracy today Each ministry and each designated
Bureauracy Private Company Each ministry and each designated external organ of the Prime Minister’s Office is headed by a minister of state Currently employs about 830,000 18,000 career bureaucrats are nucleus consists of a corps, who have passed the highly competitive Principal senior A-Class Entrance Examination After retirement top-ranking bureaucrats regularly receive prestigious positions in public or private corporations in an arrangement termed amakudari


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