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Ideologues, partisans, and loyalists : ministers and policymaking in parliamentary cabinets
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexiadou, Despina, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cabinet system.
- Cabinet officers.
- Policy sciences.
- Political parties.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work challenges assumptions made in literature on representative democracy and argues that cabinet ministers can have very important policy role as policy agenda setters. The book answers questions about the role of the individual in the policy-making process, and shows that the process of ministerial selection is critical to policy-making.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Theory
- Who are the ministers?
- Appointing ideologues, partisans, and loyalists
- Social welfare policies
- Employment policies
- Ireland
- The Netherlands
- Greece
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 5, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-181686-8
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