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Accounting for Ministers : Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945-2007.
Uses the tools of modern political science to analyse the factors which determine the fortunes of Cabinet ministers.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Accounting for Ministers; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Managing the cabinet: principal-agent relations; Principals and their agents; Agency models of elections; Empirical evidence; Parliamentary democracy; The prime minister and cabinet; Applying the agency model in parliamentary democracies; The cabinet as a system of incentives; Cabinet selection; Our data and questions; 3 The structure of British government; Constitutional situation; The cabinet; Ministers; The jobs of ministers; Choosing ministers.
- Ministerial responsibilityIndividual ministerial responsibility; Collective cabinet responsibility; Government changes; 4 Who serves in government and how long do they last?; Who serves; Power relations in British government; Ministerial characteristics; How long do ministers last?; Hazard rates and survivor functions; Education effects; Effects of gender and other characteristics; Political effects; Separating the effect of individual characteristics; The determinants of ministerial hazard rates; Conclusion; 5 The prime minister and cabinet; Prime ministerial styles.
- Clement Attlee
- 26 July 1945 to 26 October 1951 (two administrations)Winston Churchill
- 26 October 1951 to 5 April 1955 (one administration); Anthony Eden
- 5 April 1955 to 9 January 1957 (two administrations); Harold Macmillan
- 5 January 1957 to 18 October 1963 (two administrations); Alec Douglas-Home
- 18 October 1963 to 16 October 1964 (one administration); Harold Wilson
- 16 October 1964 to 19 June 1970 (two administrations); Edward Heath
- 19 June 1970 to 4 March 1974 (one administration); Harold Wilson
- 4 March 1974 to 5 April 1976 (two administrations).
- James Callaghan
- 5 April 1976 to 4 May 1979 (one administration)Margaret Thatcher
- 4 May 1979 to 28 November 1990 (three administrations); John Major
- 28 November 1990 to 2 May 1997 (two administrations); Tony Blair
- 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007 (three administrations); Survivor functions for different prime ministers; Conclusion; 6 Performance measures and forced exits; Introduction; Resignations and non-resignations; Differences between prime ministers and parties; Proximate causes of forced exits; Conclusions; 7 Ministerial performance and tenure; Our assumptions; Ministerial motives.
- Misalignment of incentivesImperfect information; Performance and tenure; Resignation calls as performance indicators; Descriptive analysis; Empirical strategy; Hazard rate estimates; Conclusions; 8 Conclusion; References; Index.