The selection of ministers around the world

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 p...

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Main Author: Dowding, Keith M. (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Dumont, Patrick (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 2015
Series:Routledge research on social and political elites
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Masuyma and Benjamin Nyblade
  • South Korea : selection and de-selections 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 post-colonial 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