POLB50Y3 Chapter 22: Chapter 22.docx
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The traditional function is that of policy implementation- that is, administering policies established by the prime minister, cabinet, and parliament. It also equally involved in the function of policy making. Look up on wikipedia cuz book doesn"t describe it too well. Government departments are created and reorganized by acts of parliament, which also set out the responsibilities of each. But the prime minister and cabinet can even transfer responsibilities from one department to another. Ministers are responsible for their department, so they get most of the credit, or they get most of the fault. The more permanent head of the department is the deputy minister. Deputy ministers have two primary roles: act as chief policy adviser to the minister, function as managers of the department; they not the minister, run the department. This raises the question as to whether the dms are the ones who should be responsible for the departamental mistakes.
