Tina Burrett is Associate Professor of Political Science at Sophia University, Japan. She is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia (2023), and Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia (2019) and author of Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia (2011). She has worked in the British, Canadian and Japanese parliaments.

• Part One.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Comparing Prime Ministers in Britain and Japan.- Chapter 2: Leadership Theories and the British and Japanese Prime Minister.- Chapter 3: Political Institutions and Culture: Similarities and Difference Between Britain and Japan.- Part Two.- Chapter 4: Prime Ministerial Power in Party and Parliamentary Context.- Chapter 5: Prime Ministerial Power and the Executive.- Chapter 6: Prime Ministerial Power and the Media.- Chapter 7: The Prime Minister’s Personal Agency.- Part Three.-Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Tina Burrett is Associate Professor of Political Science at Sophia University, Japan. She is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia (2023), and Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia (2019) and author of Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia (2011). She has worked in the British, Canadian and Japanese parliaments.

• Part One.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Comparing Prime Ministers in Britain and Japan.- Chapter 2: Leadership Theories and the British and Japanese Prime Minister.- Chapter 3: Political Institutions and Culture: Similarities and Difference Between Britain and Japan.- Part Two.- Chapter 4: Prime Ministerial Power in Party and Parliamentary Context.- Chapter 5: Prime Ministerial Power and the Executive.- Chapter 6: Prime Ministerial Power and the Media.- Chapter 7: The Prime Minister’s Personal Agency.- Part Three.-Chapter 8. Conclusion.