| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites |
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Routledge research on social and political elites.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Keith Dowding and Patrick Dumont -- New Zealand : stability, change or transition? : achieving and retaining ministerial office / Jennifer Curtin -- Australia : ministerial characteristics in the Australian Federal Government / Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis -- Japan : ministerial selection and de-selection / Mikitaka Masuyma and Benjamin Nyblade -- South Korea : selection and de-selections of ministers in a presidential system / Won-Taek Kang -- India : the selection and de-selection of cabinet ministers / Csaba Nikolenyi -- Pakistan : ministerial turnover in the federal cabinet / Mariam Mufti -- Russia : cabinet formation and careers in a super-presidential system / Elena Semenova -- Turkey : cabinet dynamics and ministerial careers, 1950-2011 / Hande Mutlu-Eren -- Israel : the choosing of the chosen / Ofer Kenig and Shlomit Barnea -- Nigeria : cabinet dynamics amid structural changes in a post-colonial state / Henry A. Kifordu -- Argentina : the ministers of the president 1983-2013 / Marcelo Camerlo -- Chile : ministerial selection and de-selection / Peter M. Siavelis and Humberto Baruch Galván -- Canada : ministerial careers / Matthew Kerby -- United States of America : the cabinet / Alejandro Quiroz Flores |
| Summary |
Governing cabinets are composed of ministers who come and go even as governments march on. They work for the chief executive, the prime minister or the president, for their parties and for the constituent groups from which they come. They are chosen for their role and dismissed from it for all sorts of reasons that vary across time and country. This book examines the process of selection, shuffling and removal of ministers in national cabinets around the world. Drawing on original data over several decades, it offers a series of case studies of countries from around the world with dif |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cabinet officers -- Selection and appointment -- Case studies
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Cabinet system -- Case studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
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Cabinet officers -- Selection and appointment.
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Cabinet system.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dowding, Keith M., author, editor
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Dumont, Patrick, editor
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| ISBN |
9781317634454 |
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1317634454 |
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9781315757865 |
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1315757869 |
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