Advising the prime minister in New Zealand

The origins, functions and evolution of the prime minister's advisory group

Bibliographic Data

ID10383178
AuthorsJonathan Boston (a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy , Victoria University , Wellington, New Zealand, corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume23
Issue1
Pages8-20
Publication date1988-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3268 • E-ISSN: 1467-9256
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00323268808402042
OpenAlexW1981000799
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited11

Unlike many of their foreign counterparts, New Zealand Prime Ministers have been generally satisfied to maintain only meagre support and advisory services. Their main source of non‐bureaucratic policy advice since 1976 has been a small Advisory Group of about eight members located within the Prime Minister's Department This article examines the origins, functions and evolution of the Advisory Group during the past decade or so. In particular, it consider the relationship between the Group and the Wellington bureaucracy, the changes to its operations following the election of the Labour Government in July 1984, and the possible implications of the restructuring of the Prime Minister's Department into two separate offices — the Cabinet Office and the Prime Minister's Office — in April 1987. The article is based on a series of interviews conducted with politicians, civil servants and Advisory Group members during the late 1970s and again in mid 1987

Bureaucracy · Cabinet (room · Civil servants · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Prime (order theory · Prime minister · Restructuring · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Engineering · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration

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