The selection of ministers in Europe : hiring and firing / edited by Keith Dowding and Patrick Dumont.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Description
xvii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • Structural and strategic factors affecting the hiring and firing of ministers / Keith Dowding and Patrick Dumont
  • Hiring and firing ministers under informal constraints : Germany / Jörn Fischer and André Kaiser
  • Cabinet dynamics and ministerial careers in the French Fifth Republic / Christopher Kam and Indridi Indridason
  • Choosing, moving and resigning at Westminster, UK / Samuel Berlinski ... [et al.]
  • Italy : the difficult road towards a more effective process of ministerial selection / Luca Verzichelli
  • Cabinet dynamics in democratic Spain (1977-2008) / José Real-Dato and Miguel Jerez-Mir
  • Belgium : ups and downs of ministerial careers in a partitocratic federal state / Patrick Dumont, Stefaan Fiers and Régis Dandoy
  • Portugal : the primacy of 'independents' / António Costa Pinto and Pedro Tavares de Almeida
  • In tranquil waters : Swedish cabinet ministers in the postwar era / Hanna Bäck ... [et al.]
  • Constructing and maintaining Irish governments / Eoin O'Malley
  • More safe than sound? Cabinet ministers in Iceland / Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson
  • Learning to rule : ministerial careers in post-communist democracies / Katja Fettelschoss and Csaba Nikolenyi.
ISBN
  • 9780415430814 (hardback)
  • 041543081X (hardback)
  • 9780203886908 (ebook)
  • 0203886909 (ebook)
LCCN
2008023457
OCLC
166382999
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