The Hollow Crown - Countervailing Trends in Core Executives

The first volume in a series of comparative studies within the ESRC's Whitehall Programme focuses on core executives in five parliamentary democracies comparing the Westminster model as in Australia, Canada and Britain with the continental democracies of Germany and the Netherlands showing how political leadership is shackled by a vast array of constraints, from globalisation to internal fragmentation and rationalisation, making a heroic model of decisive political leadership hard to sustain.

Sommario

List of Figures - Preface - Acknowledgements - Contributors - The Hollow Crown: Coherence and Capacity in Central Government; Patrick Weller and Herman Bakvis - In Search of the Hollow Crown; Michael Saward - Political Parties and the Core Executive; Patrick Weller - Collegiality and Collectivity: Cabinets, Cabinet Committees and Cabinet Ministers; Rudy Andeweg - Advising the Executive: Think Tanks, Consultants, Political Staff and Kitchen Cabinets; Herman Bakvis - Executive Coordination Mechanisms; Glyn Davis - Managing Budgets; John Wanna - Decentralization and Public Management Reform; Peter Aucoin - 'Shackling the Leader?': Coherence, Capacity and the Hollow Crown; R.A.W.Rhodes - Bibliography - Index

Riassunto

This first volume in a set of comparative studies within the ESRC's Whitehall Programme focuses on core executives in five parliamentary democracies comparing the Westminster model as in Australia, Canada and Britain with the continental democracies of Germany and the Netherlands.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: A W Rhodes (Editore), R A W Rhodes (Editore), Herman Bakvis (Editore), R. A. W. Rhodes (Editore), R.A.W. Rhodes (Editore), Patrick Weller (Editore)
• Editore: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9780333681954
• ISBN: 978-0-333-68195-4
• Pagine: 252
• Dimensioni: 177 mm x 219 mm x 16 mm
• Peso: 365 g
• Illustrazioni: XVI, 252 p.
• Serie: Transforming Government; Transforming Government S; Transforming Government
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva