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Pious,R. 1991. Prerogative power and the Reagan presidency.Political Science Quarterly, 106 : 499 – 510. Rossiter,C. 1956 .The A ...

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government would be far more vibrant if it engaged with core debates in the comparative politics literature. I try to build such ...

diVuse. It commonly refers to a family of ideas that includes: a unitary state; parliamentary sovereignty; strong cabinet govern ...

between diVerent elements of the government machine. These functions can be carried out by institutions other than prime ministe ...

Each of these approaches has its limitations. Westminster’s formal-legal approach ignores larger debates both in the study of co ...

to Westminster systems such as Australia, Britain, and Canada as well as West European parliamentary systems. 2 Foley’s ( 2000 ) ...

agenciesarekeyactors.Thereisasecondstoryofprimeministerialpowerthatfocuses on the problems of governance and sees the prime mini ...

coordination. The means are many and varied. The outcomes remain uncertain. In response to the prime minister of Australia’s cal ...

holding the powerful to account in Westminster systems: individual and collective ministerial responsibility, public sector refo ...

control of the public service became the order of the day in the 1990 s. The language of reform called for ‘‘responsiveness’’ by ...

So, if we focus on ministerial responsibility, we have a seriously lopsided view of accountability in parliamentary government. ...

executives, including the media and the personalization of executive politics, international aVairs, especially security and def ...

based on the candidate’s support for or commitment to particular ideologies or objectives.’’ Some found it more diYcult to hold ...

descriptive but also normative. All too often, it displays both a preference for strong leadership and a belief that majority pa ...

answer reveals some odd features in the comparative analysis of cabinets and prime ministers. First, much of the published work ...

prevails, when, how, and why did it change. Focusing on the power of prime minister and cabinet is limiting, whereas these quest ...

action. Such disagreements matter not in this context. The key point is, as Elgie ( 2004 , 327 – 8 ) argues, that the veto-playe ...

Vim and vigour lies not in microspecialization but in engaging with the bigger debates in comparative politics and political sci ...

Campbell,C. 1998 .The US Presidency in Crisis: A Comparative Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press. —— and Wilson,G. 19 ...