Prime Ministerialisation through "A Country Is My
Company" Approach
Prime ministerialisation refers to a phenomenon by which the top executive, namely
the prime minister, makes use of administrative reform as a means to consolidateand take away power and authority from ministers and senior bureaucrats into his
own hands. Hence, at the end of the process of prime ministerialisation, the Prime
Minister will emerge as the sole centre of power in society. All government power
will be concentrated in his hands. All government officials, central and local alike,
and all politicians, both in the cabinet, parliament and outside, will be under his
control and a state of absolute rule by an elected tyrant is attained. Political power
is a monopoly of one single authority. Prime ministerialisation is not an uncommon
phenomenon1 and can result from either intended or unintended reform
consequences.2 For example in Italy, the billionaire businessman-turned-prime
minister Silvio Berlusconi's plans to reform the Constitution was accused by the
opposition as an attempt to grab monarchical powers for himself.3