The selection of ministers around the world
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The selection of ministers around the world
（Routledge research on social and political elites, 5）
Routledge, 2015 [i.e. 2014]
- : hbk
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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 differing institutional and cultural structures including presidential and semi-presidential systems, parliamentary, unitary and federal systems, some of which have experienced periods under authoritarian regimes. Featuring fourteen case studies on North and South America, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, this book complements the earlier volume The Selection of Ministers in Europe (Routledge, 2009). This volume wil
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents of Works
- 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 Masuyama and Benjamin Nyblade
- South Korea : selection and de-selection 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 postcolonial 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
