weak administration

Sarraj’s U.N.-backed but weak administration holds Tripoli and parts of the west.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2019

Conde's camp argues it has had to balance delivering quick fixes with pushing through the deep reforms needed in a country crippled by a chronically weak administration.

From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2013

A Pentagon official monitoring Iraq acknowledges that a weak administration could invite a coup.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this time, in fact, a weak administration had suffered the empire to be torn asunder by convulsions.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

The British government seized the opportunity of Adams's weak administration to close the West India ports to American shipping.

From A Short History of the United States by Channing, Edward