To add to his woes, the prime minister's plans for administrative reform have been mutilated.
Mr Hashimoto has been chairing the Administrative Reform Council himself to keep in line the panel of the good and the great.
But Mr Kozak was also in charge of a grand plan for government administrative reform, and that now risks falling by the wayside.
He has also shoved a tight budget through parliament and made a start on administrative reform, creating a cabinet secretariat that tries to stop ministers acting as rival chieftains.
The Administrative Reform Council will recommend setting up British-style independent agencies to do a number of administrative jobs (such as vehicle licensing and managing teachers' pensions) currently performed by bureaucrats.
It was because of conflict between the ministry's financial and fiscal responsibilities (which led to the asset-inflated bubble economy a decade ago and the subsequent banking mess) that administrative reform became popular in the first place.
Through them, we'll help China to train judges and lawyers, increase our exchanges of legal experts and materials, strengthen commercial law and arbitration in China, and share ideas on issues such as legal aid and administrative reform.
The timely formation of the government will make it possible to avoid uncertainty in the structures of federal executive authority and consequently to support the state apparatus's ability to work and preserve the speed set for reforms, including within the framework of administrative reform that has begun.
This was to reform India's creaking, corrupt administrative structures so that policies formulated in Delhi might actually be implemented in the villages where most Indians still live.
It also needs to improve its crumbling infrastructure, reform constrictive labour laws and remove many of the administrative hurdles it erects in companies' paths especially in manufacturing.
First, the mandarins want to be in charge of their own reform, a principle that the politicians have honoured in all administrative reforms up to now.
We now are confronted with a choice between two candidates in which the candidate sitting here with you today is committed to comprehensive immigration reform, is committed to the DREAM Act, has taken administrative actions to prevent young people from being deported.
He said he will push forward the reform of streamlining government functions and cut the existing 1, 700 administrative approval items by at least one-third in the coming five years.
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Richard Descoings was known for carrying out a programme of far-reaching reform at Sciences Po, which educates much of the French political, media and administrative elite.
Bill Shipman, chairman of CarriageOaks Partners and cochairman of the Cato Project on Social Security Choice and who also helps the Heritage Foundation and others promote reform, has done extensive work demonstrating that such a system can becreated with extremely low administrative costs.
Cardinal Bergoglio certainly preferred life in the local Church to the bureaucracy of Rome's administrative body - the Curia, which is widely perceived as plagued with management issues and in need of reform.
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