DEVELOPMENTS - ADVISING PRIME MINISTERS - Rudy B Andeweg looks at the way prime ministers are advised in other European countries. It is extremely difficult to translate institutional experience from one political system to another -- There are a huge variations in prime ministers' advice structures depending, for example, on whether there is a coalition government; whether the country is federal; whether the prime minister shares or competes for power with an elected president. He concludes that what works in Bonn or Paris might not work in London, and what does not work in Rome, might well work in Whitehall

In: Public money & management: integrating theory and practice in public management, Volume 19, Issue 2, p. 13-18