Core Executives in a Comparative Perspective Governing in Complex Times
This book examines the contemporary relevance of the concept of the core executive across a range of constitutional contexts, covering examples from Westminster system, continental Europe, and Scandinavia. Much study of core executives focuses exclusively on the Westminster system, but this book exp...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
Series: | Understanding Governance
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Setting the scene
- Chapter 1. In the beginning: The story of a concept (Kristoffer Kolltveit and Richard Shaw)
- Chapter 2. Core executive studies in the wild (Richard Shaw and Kristoffer Kolltveit)
- Chapter 3. Court politics: From metaphor to theory (R.A.W. Rhodes)
- Part II: Core executives in Westminster contexts
- Chapter 4. Court politics in an age of austerity: David Cameron’s court, 2010–2016 (R.A.W. Rhodes)
- Chapter 5. Ireland’s core executive at one hundred years of self-government: Navigating coalition, crisis and complexity(Bernadette Connaughton)
- Chapter 6. New Zealand: The core within the core (Richard Shaw and Rose Cole)
- Part III: Core executives in Continental countries
- Chapter 7. On a wildgoose chase? The (core) executive in Germany (Anna Hundehege and Thurid Hustedt)
- Chapter 8. The Netherlands: How weak prime ministers gain influence (Erik-Jan van Dorp and R.A.W. Rhodes)
- Part IV: Core executives in Scandinavia
- Chapter 9. The Swedish executive: Centralising from afar (Erik Brinde, Thurid Hustedt and Heidi HoulbergSalomonsen)
- Chapter 10. The Danish core executive: From ‘duopoly’ to ‘monopoly’? (Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen and Amalie Trangbæk)
- Chapter 11. The Norwegian core executive: Baronial courts and inner circles? (Kristoffer Kolltveit and Jostein Askim)
- Part V: Conclusion
- Chapter 12. Continuity and change: Explaining developments and looking to the future (Kristoffer Kolltveit and Richard Shaw)