Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

British Cabinet Ministers: The Roles of Politicians in Executive Office book cover

1st Edition

British Cabinet Ministers The Roles of Politicians in Executive Office

By Bruce Headey Copyright 1974
316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
First published in 1974, British Cabinet Ministers is about the opportunities and constraints of executive political office. It is mainly based on interviews with fifty contemporary British Ministers and twenty-five senior civil servants. Hitherto political observers have referred simply to ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ Ministers, which begs the question ‘“strong” or “weak” at what?’ Here Ministers are... Read more

Part I: The Job of Cabinet Minister  1. Cabinet Ministers and Executive Political Leadership  2. The Demands of the Job  3. A Typology of Cabinet Ministers  Part II: Factors Affecting Performance in Office  4. The Skills of Ministers  5. Ministers and Their Departments I: Their Range and Quality of Advice  6. Ministers and Their Departments II: The Expectations of Civil Servants  7. Differences between Departments and Situations  8. Ministerial Policy Objectives  Part III: Ministers in Office: Case Studies  9. Policy Initiators: The Key Issues Approach  10. Executive Ministers  11. Ambassador Ministers  Part IV: The Consequences of Ministers  12. Selecting Cabinet Ministers: Some International Comparisons  13. The Consequences of Ministers 

Biography

Bruce Headey is a Fellow of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.

Review of the first publication:

‘Joining an intimate knowledge of British government with a modest, clear, and reasonable borrowing from the insights and methods of the social sciences, Bruce Headey…has written a substantial informative study…’

— Leon D. Epstein, Political Science Quarterly

Add to Cart