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.

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1.Introduction 2.Change of Bureaucratic Dominance 3.Political Reformation 4.Necessity of Further Reformation 5.Conclusion The administrative organization is going to be reformed at the very beginning of the year 2001. This reformation was performed by the strong leadership of the former Premier, Ryutaro Hashimoto. Though it is quite significant for the administrative organization to be reformed for the first time in this half century, this reformation should be considered not merely as a reorganization of the bureaucratic system, but as a part of the whole governmental reformation. It has been said that the power and the influence of the bureaucrats are extremely strong in Japan. But since so many problems arose, there were and still are remarkable movements to weaken the power of the bureaucrats, that is, deregulation, decentralization to the local governments and political reformation. Concerning to the policy-making process, the third point, the aspect of political reformation is especially meaningful. In this study, the relation between the administrative reformation and the political reformation is described by focusing on the improvement of cabinet system etc.. Also, the important points to complete the the governmental reformation are examined.

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