Jean Blondel, Ferdinand Müller-Rommel and Darina Malová ; with Katja Fettelschoss [and others].
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
xiii, 238 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-233) and index.
Introduction: The Cabinet as a New Form of Government in Post-Communist Democracies -- PART 1: THE GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS -- The End of Communism and the New Party System -- The Anatomy of Central Eastern European Cabinets -- The Rules and the Operating Procedures in Cabinet -- An Overall Descriptive View: What Ministers Think about Cabinet Government -- PART 2: PARTIES AND TYPES OF CABINETS IN THE VIEW OF MINISTERS -- Party Government and Cabinet Decision-Making -- Coalitions, Single-Party Governments and Cabinet Decision-Making -- PART 3: MINISTERS AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT OF CABINETS -- How Ministers View the Role of Prime Ministers' Offices -- Ministers and the Role of Civil Servants in Cabinet Decision-Making -- PART 4: THE MEMBERS OF THE CABINET IN THE VIEWS OF THE MINISTERS -- Ministers and Cabinet Decision-Making -- Finance Ministers and Cabinet Decision-Making -- Prime Ministers and Cabinet Decision-Making -- Conclusion.
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"Governing New European Democracies is the first truly comparative volume that examines the internal characteristics of cabinet decision-making in ten Central Eastern European countries between 1990 and 2003. On the basis of 320 interviews with former ministers who participated in these decision-making processes, this study examines the role of procedures and rules, parties, civil servants, individual ministers, the finance minister and above all prime ministers on the nature of cabinet decision-making."--Jacket.
Cabinet system-- Europe, Eastern.
Democracy-- Europe, Eastern.
Post-communism-- Europe, Eastern.
Representative government and representation-- Europe, Eastern.