The selection of ministers in Europe
Subtitle: hiring and firing
By: Keith Dowding and Patrick Dumont [editors].
Contributors: Dowding, Keith M.; Dumont, Patrick.
Series: Routledge advances in European politics -- 52
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415430814; 9780203886908
Subjects: Cabinet officers -- Selection and appointment -- Europe; Cabinet officers -- Europe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Structural and strategic factors affecting the hiring and firing of ministers / Keith Dowding and Patrick Dumont; title: Hiring and firing ministers under informal constraints : Germany / Jörn Fischer and André Kaiser; title: Cabinet dynamics and ministerial careers in the French Fifth Republic; title: Choosing, moving and resigning at Westminster / Samuel Berlinski ... [et al.]; title: Italy : the difficult road towards a more effective process of ministerial selection / Luca Verzichelli; title: Cabinet dynamics in democratic Spain (1977-2008) / José Real-Dato and Miguel Jerez-Mir; title: Belgium : ups and downs of ministerial careers in a partitocratic federal state / Patrick Dumont, Stefaan Fiers and Regis Dandoy; title: Portugal : the primacy of "independents" / António Costa Pinto and Pedro Tavares de Almeida; title: In tranquil waters : Swedish cabinet ministers in the post-war era / Hanna Back ... [et al.]; title: Constructing and maintaining Irish governments / Eoin O'Malley; title: More safe than sound? cabinet ministers in Iceland / Gunnar Helgi Kristinson; title: Learning to rule : ministerial careers in post-communist democracies / Katja Fettelschoss and Csaba Nikolenyi.