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“Machinery of government” is a term widely used to describe the administrative arrangements established in most modern states to enable them to discharge the multitude of functions for which governments hold responsibility. The “machine” is subject to ongoing change needing to be accommodated within it, but it rests on a group of major building blocks subject to that change but nevertheless recognizable in the long term as ministers and ministries, portfolios, departments, and agencies (the latter now often referred to as arm’s-length bodies). Ministries and departments have evolved as the principal organizational types in the British-based Westminster system of government, whose evolution is part of the process of constitutional development, and agencies of various kinds have developed to supplement ministries and departments in their work. |
