Pathways To Power: Selecting Rulers In Pluralist Democracies

by Mattei Dogan

Overview

This book focuses on the selection process of cabinet ministers in a variety of democratic political systems. It discusses the variety of recruitment patterns in some of parliament-centered systems, federal system, centralized system, one-party-dominant system and majoritarian system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367297855
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/09/2020
Pages:	283
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface — Introduction: Selecting Cabinet Ministers — Career Pathways to the Cabinet in France, 1870–1986 — Presidential Personnel and Political Capital: from Roosevelt to Reagan — Selecting Chief Executives in Norway and the United States — How to Become a Cabinet Minister in Italy: Unwritten Rules of the Political Game — Junior Ministers and Ministerial Careers in Britain — The Making of A Japanese Cabinet — Pathways to India’s National Governing Elite — Selection of Cabinet Ministers in Ireland, 1922–1982 — Selection by Lot in Ancient Athens — Irremovable Leaders and Ministerial Instability in European Democracies