1st Edition
Ministerial Survival During Political and Cabinet Change Foreign Affairs, Diplomacy and War
By Alejandro Quiroz Flores
Copyright 2017
161 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
162 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
162 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Political leaders need ministers to help them rule and so conventional wisdom suggests that leaders appoint competent ministers to their cabinet.
This book shows this is not necessarily the case. It examines the conditions that facilitate survival in ministerial office and how they are linked to ministerial competence, the political survival of heads of government and the nature of... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The Study of Cabinet Change
3. Political Survival and Cabinet Change
4. Data on Foreign Ministers
5. Foreign Affairs, Diplomacy, and War
6. Evidence in Autocracies
7. Global Evidence
8. Conclusion
Biography
Alejandro Quiroz Flores is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, UK. His work has appeared at Political Science Research and Methods, the British Journal of Political Science, and International Studies Quarterly, among others. He is also the manager of the Comparative Political Economics Division at the Department of Government.
