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The personal staff of prime ministers have come to play a large part in Western European governments, a part that is sometimes regarded as excessive in that it appears to have undermined the nature of cabinet decision-making. Cabinet government may no longer be collective and collegial in most Western European countries for a variety of other reasons, but the existence of prime ministerial staffs seems to have contributed to a substantial extent to the phenomenon.1
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See for instance G. W. Jones (1991), pp. 1-17.
The cabinet secretariat was set up in Britain in 1916 by Lloyd George.
The question of ‘prime ministerial government’ was referred to earlier. See Chapter 1.
Included are Gemany, France, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Norway, Den-mark, Austria, and Britain.
J. Vahr (1991).
P. Gerlich and W. C. Müller (1988), p. 143.
S. Eriksen (1988b), p. 189.
A. King (1991), p. 41.
F. Müller-Rommel (1992), passim.
A number of responses have had to be excluded as they did not cover all the questions.
Differences in numbers result from the fact that some respondents answered only two or three of the four questions.
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Müller-Rommel, F. (1993). Ministers and the Role of the Prime Ministerial Staff. In: Blondel, J., Müller-Rommel, F. (eds) Governing Together. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22936-9_6
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