| 英文摘要 |
本稿の目的は、「首相主導」や「官邸主導」、これがどこまで実態を伴った議論であったのかを検証することである。実際に首相や首相官邸が行政官僚制をどの程度政治的にコントロールしていたのだろうか。そして、その現象は、「安倍一強」論のいうように、2012年12月から2020年9月まで政権を担った安倍晋三内閣に特有のものだったのだろうか。 そこで、2019年及び2023年に実施された官僚意識調査をもとに、日本の首相主導あるいは官邸主導の実態を財務省、総務省、経済産業省、国土交通省、厚生労働省、文部科学省の主要6省の官僚たちの政策形成における認識から分析する。結論を要約すると、首相官邸、内閣官房、内閣府などの政府中枢が日々の政策形成過程で特に重要視されているわけではないだけでなく、安倍内閣時代に官僚の認識に突出した特徴があるわけでもないということが明らかになった。 The purpose of this article is to examine the influential theory of“strong leadership”of Japanese Prime Minister by analysing the results of the 2019 and 2023 bureaucrats’surveys. This article explores the extent to which the Prime Minister and his entourages politically controlled the administrative machinery. It also examines whether only the Liberal Democratic government led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (Dec 2012 to Sep 2020) was quite unique, as“Abe One-Man Government”theorists claim, in a sense that he successfully coerced bureaucrats to do what he wanted through his personnel management power. This article analyzes two bureaucrats’surveys conducted in 2019 and 2023 to assess how bureaucrats in the six major ministries perceived and behaved in the policy-making: the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. To summarise the result of this article, it reveals that bureaucrats in the six major ministries regarded the“core executive”including Prime Minister and his Cabinet Secretariat and Cabinet Office as not so important players in the daily policy-making. In addition, the results indicate that the Abe government was not so successful in controlling bureaucrats, even with newly created personnel management power. |