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Title Core executives in a comparative perspective : governing in complex times / Kristoffer Kolltveit, Richard Shaw, editors
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

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Description 1 online resource
Series Understanding governance
Understanding governance.
Contents Part I: Setting the scene -- Chapter 1. In the beginning: The story of a concept (Kristoffer Kolltveit and Richard Shaw) -- Chapter 2. Core executive studies in the wild (Richard Shaw and Kristoffer Kolltveit) -- Chapter 3. Court politics: From metaphor to theory (R.A.W. Rhodes) -- Part II: Core executives in Westminster contexts -- Chapter 4. Court politics in an age of austerity: David Camerons court, 20102016 (R.A.W. Rhodes) -- Chapter 5. Irelands core executive at one hundred years of self-government: Navigating coalition, crisis and complexity(Bernadette Connaughton) -- Chapter 6. New Zealand: The core within the core (Richard Shaw and Rose Cole) -- Part III: Core executives in Continental countries -- Chapter 7. On a wildgoose chase? The (core) executive in Germany (Anna Hundehege and Thurid Hustedt) -- Chapter 8. The Netherlands: How weak prime ministers gain influence (Erik-Jan van Dorp and R.A.W. Rhodes) -- Part IV: Core executives in Scandinavia -- Chapter 9. The Swedish executive: Centralising from afar (Erik Brinde, Thurid Hustedt and Heidi HoulbergSalomonsen) -- Chapter 10. The Danish core executive: From duopoly to monopoly? (Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen and Amalie Trangbk) -- Chapter 11. The Norwegian core executive: Baronial courts and inner circles? (Kristoffer Kolltveit and Jostein Askim) -- Part V: Conclusion -- Chapter 12. Continuity and change: Explaining developments and looking to the future (Kristoffer Kolltveit and Richard Shaw)
Summary This book examines the contemporary relevance of the concept of the core executive across a range of constitutional contexts, covering examples from Westminster system, continental Europe, and Scandinavia. Much study of core executives focuses exclusively on the Westminster system, but this book expands that scope to take into account nations where coalition government has been the norm for decades. Focusing on the interaction between the political and administrative executives, the book addresses tensions between the two that have become increasingly apparent in an age of populism and mediatisation. Kristoffer Kolltveit is a professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway. His research interests include political and administrative elites, media impact in the central administration, cabinet decision-making and bureaucracy. Richard Shaw is Professor of Politics at Massey University, New Zealand. His research interests focus on different facets of the advent of ministerial advisors in parliamentary democracies, and on political-administrative relations in comparative contexts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 9, 2022)
Subject Representative government and representation -- Great Britain
Representative government and representation -- Europe
Representative government and representation -- Scandinavia
Executive power -- Great Britain
Executive power -- Europe
Executive power -- Scandinavia
Executive power
Representative government and representation
Europe
Great Britain
Scandinavia
Form Electronic book
Author Kolltveit, Kristoffer, editor
Shaw, Richard, 1972- editor.
ISBN 9783030945039
3030945030