Keith Dowding / Patrick Dumont (eds.)

The Selection of Ministers in Europe

Hiring and Firing
Herausgeber: Dowding, Keith; Dumont, Patrick

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines, through a series of case studies of countries with differing institutional and cultural structures, the process of selection, shuffling and removal of ministers in national cabinets since 1945.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780415430814
• ISBN-10: 041543081X
• Artikelnr.: 26367987

Autorenporträt

Edited by Dowding, Keith; Dumont, Patrick

Inhaltsangabe

1. Structural and Strategic Factors Affecting the Hiring and Firing of
Ministers 2. Hiring and Firing Ministers under Informal Constraints:
Germany 3. Cabinet Dynamics and Ministerial Careers in the French Fifth
Republic 4. Choosing, Moving and Resigning at Westminster 5. Italy: the
Difficult Road towards a more Effective Process of Ministerial Selection 6.
Cabinet Dynamics in Democratic Spain 7. Ups and Downs of Ministerial
Careers in a Partitocratic Federal State 8. Portugal: The Primacy of
'Independents' 9. In Tranquil Waters: Swedish Cabinet Ministers in the
Post-War Era 10. Constructing and Maintaining Irish Governments 11. More
Safe than Sound? Cabinet Ministers in Iceland 12. Learning to Rule:
Ministerial Careers in Post-Communist Democracies