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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dowding, Keith M.

Dumont, Patrick.

Series:

Routledge advances in European politics ; 52.

Routledge advances in European politics ; 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabinet officers--Selection and appointment--Europe.

Cabinet officers.

Cabinet officers--Europe.

Cabinet officers--Selection and appointment.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xvii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780415430814

041543081X

9780203886908

0203886909

OCLC:

166382999