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1 online resource (210 pages) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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. |
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Misalignment of incentivesImperfect information; Performance and tenure; Resignation calls as performance indicators; Descriptive analysis; Empirical strategy; Hazard rate estimates; Conclusions; 8 Conclusion; References; Index. |
| Summary |
Uses the tools of modern political science to analyse the factors which determine the fortunes of Cabinet ministers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cabinet officers -- Great Britain.
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Cabinet officers. |
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Great Britain. |
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Cabinet system -- Great Britain.
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Cabinet system. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dewan, Torun.
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Dowding, Keith.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Berlinski, Samuel. Accounting for Ministers : Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945-2007. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9780521519724 |
| ISBN |
9781139338134 |
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1139338137 |
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9780511980046 (electronic book) |
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0511980043 (electronic book) |
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9781139336390 (electronic book) |
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1139336398 (electronic book) |
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9780521519724 |
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0521519721 |
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9781139339711 |
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1139339710 |
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