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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Cover ; Ideologues, Partisans, and Loyalists: Ministers and Policymaking in Parliamentary Cabinets; Copyright ; Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Argument; 1.2 Why Study Cabinet Ministers?; 1.3 Policies under Study: Social Welfare and Labor Market; 1.4 Evidence and the Plan of the Study; 2: Theory; 2.1 Part One: Actors and their Policy Preferences; 2.2 Cabinet Ministers: Elected Politicians, Party Members, and Heads of Departments; 2.3 Part Two: A Model of Policymaking in Parliamentary Cabinets |
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2.4 Ministerial Types and Best Response Strategies2.5 Part Three: Ministerial Appointments and Ministerial Policy Effectiveness in Multiparty and Single-party Cabinets; Appendix: Theoretical Analysis: Derivation of Proposition 1; Best Response Strategies; The Equilibrium Proposal by the Minister; Numerical Simulations; 3: Who Are the Ministers?; 3.1 Why the Ministers of Social Affairs and Employment; 3.2 Coding Social Affairs and Employment Ministers as Ideologues, Partisans, and Loyalists; 3.3 The Data |
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Appendix: The Portfolios of Social Affairs and Employment in Eighteen Parliamentary Democracies4: Appointing Ideologues, Partisans, and Loyalists; 4.1 Ministerial Appointments: A Brief Review of the Literature; 4.2 Appointing Ideologue, Partisan, and Loyalist Ministers of Social Affairs and Employment; 4.3 The Appointments of Ideologues, Partisans, and Loyalists: Empirical Analysis; 4.4 Results and Discussion of Ministerial Appointments; 4.5 Conclusion; Appendix: The Selection of Ministerial Portfolios in Multiparty Cabinets; 5: Social Welfare Policies |
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5.1 The Dependent Variable: Welfare State De-commodification5.2 Main Explanatory Variables and the Empirical Strategy; 5.3 Other Explanatory and Control Variables; 5.4 Statistical Findings and Discussion; 5.5 Conclusion; Appendix: Summary and Diagnostic Statistics; 6: Employment Policies; 6.1 The Dependent Variables: EPL and ALMPs; 6.2 Explanatory Variables; 6.3 Empirical Results and Discussion; 6.4 Conclusion; 7: Ireland; 7.1 Irish Political Parties; 7.2 Trade Unions, Links to Political Parties, and Corporatism in Ireland; 7.3 The 1982-87 Fine Gael/Labour Coalition: Fighting All the Way |
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7.4 The 1987-89 Fianna Fail Minority Government: A Dominant Prime Minister with an Experienced Ministerial Team7.5 The 1993-94 Fianna Fail/Labour Government: Labour Ministers Empowered; 7.6 The 1994-97 Fine Gael/Labour/Democratic Left (Rainbow) Coalition: Strong Ministers in an Effective Government; 7.7 The 1997-2002 Fianna Fail/Progressive Democrats Coalition: A Strong Prime Minister and Even Stronger Minister of Finance; 7.8 Ministerial Types in Ireland and Policy Effectiveness: A Conclusion; Appendix: Overview of Irish Ministers of Social Affairs and Employment and Policy Reform |
| Summary |
This work challenges assumptions made in literature on representative democracy and argues that cabinet ministers can have very important policy role as policy agenda setters. The book answers questions about the role of the individual in the policy-making process, and shows that the process of ministerial selection is critical to policy-making |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 5, 2016) |
| Subject |
Policy sciences.
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Political parties.
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Cabinet officers.
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cabinet officers.
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Cabinet officers
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Policy sciences
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Political parties
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191816864 |
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0191816868 |
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0191072346 |
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9780191072345 |
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