Structural and strategic factors affecting the hiring and firing of ministers / Keith Dowding and Patrick Dumont -- Hiring and firing ministers under informal constraints : Germany / Jörn Fischer and André Kaiser -- Cabinet dynamics and ministerial careers in the French Fifth Republic / Christopher Kam and Indridi Indridason -- Choosing, moving and resigning at Westminster, UK / Samuel Berlinski [and others] -- Italy : the difficult road towards a more effective process of ministerial selection / Luca Verzichelli -- Cabinet dynamics in democratic Spain (1977-2008) / José Real-Dato and Miguel Jerez-Mir -- Belgium : ups and downs of ministerial careers in a partitocratic federal state / Patrick Dumont, Stefaan Fiers and Régis Dandoy -- Portugal : the primacy of 'independents' / António Costa Pinto and Pedro Tavares de Almeida -- In tranquil waters : Swedish cabinet ministers in the postwar era / Hanna Bäck [and others] -- Constructing and maintaining Irish governments / Eoin O'Malley -- More safe than sound? Cabinet ministers in Iceland / Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson -- Learning to rule : ministerial careers in post-communist democracies / Katja Fettelschoss and Csaba Nikolenyi.
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"This volume discusses the formation of government cabinets within twenty European democracies, providing the institutional background to the selection and de-selection of ministers." "The book is the first output of the Selection and De-selection of Political Elites international network of scholars (SEDEPE) and will provide a major source of information for all scholars interested in the formation, maintenance and termination of cabinets and the nature of ministerial government. The Selection of Ministers in Europe: Hiring and firing will also be of broader interest to students of European government and political institutions."--BOOK JACKET.
Cabinet officers-- Europe.
Cabinet officers-- Selection and appointment-- Europe.