Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the new model of the private members' bills and to analyze the policy secretary's style of policy/legislative assistance. First, we suggest that it is necessary for the Diet to shift the center of the legislation to the members' bills by the Diet member's initiative away from the bureaucracy-led Cabinet bills and to reflect the discussion upon a national basis within and outside the Diet in the decision-making process. Second, we verify several functions of the legislative staff to the Diet members and consider how the policy secretary should take a stance to strengthen the resources for policy-making by the political parties and the Diet members. It concludes that the parties need to employ the policy secretary as an expert to draft bills by formal negotiation and coordination within and among party organizations.
