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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970533903321

Autore

Moury Catherine

Titolo

Coalition government and party mandate : how coalition agreements constrain ministerial action / / atherine Moury

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-18910-6

0-203-08404-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Collana

Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites ; ; 1

Disciplina

352.2/93094

Soggetti

Cabinet officers - Europe

Coalition governments - Europe

Comparative government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface from the series editors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Theorising coalition agreements; 3 Methodological choices; 4 Case study one: Germany; 5 Case study two: Belgium; 6 case study three: the Netherlands; 7 Case study four: Italy; 8 Coalition agreements and cabinet decision-making in four countries; 9 Explaining variation across cases: preliminary findings; 10 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Which kind of decisions are passed by Cabinet in coalition governments? What motivates ministerial action? How much leeway do coalition parties give their governmental representatives? This book focuses on a comparative study of ministerial behaviour in Germany, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. It discredits the assumption that ministers are 'policy dictators' in their spheres of competence, and demonstrates that ministers are consistently and extensively constrained when deciding on policies. The first book in a new series at the forefront of research on social and political elit