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9780521519724

Accounting for Ministers: Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945–2007

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521519724

  • ISBN10:

    0521519721

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-04-09
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Accounting for Ministers uses the tools of modern political science to analyse the factors which determine the fortunes of Cabinet ministers. Utilising agency theory, it describes Cabinet government as a system of incentives for prime ministerial and parliamentary rule. The authors use a unique dataset of ministers from 1945 to 2007 to examine the structural and individual characteristics that lead to the selection and durability of ministers. Sensitive to historical context, it describes the unique features of different Prime Ministers and the sorts of issues and scandals that lead to the forced exit of ministers. The authors identify the structural factors that determine ministerial performance and tenure, seeing resignation calls as performance indicators. Probing the nature of individual and collective responsibility within Westminster forms of government, its rigorous analysis provides powerful new insights into the nature of Cabinet government.

Table of Contents

List of figuresp. vii
List of tablesp. viii
Preface and acknowledgementsp. ix
Introductionp. 1
Managing the cabinet: principal-agent relations in governmentp. 6
Principals and their agentsp. 7
Agency models of electionsp. 8
Parliamentary democracyp. 13
The prime minister and cabinetp. 14
Applying the agency model in parliamentary democraciesp. 15
Our data and questionsp. 19
The structure of British governmentp. 21
Constitutional situationp. 21
The cabinetp. 26
Ministersp. 30
The jobs of ministersp. 33
Choosing ministersp. 37
Ministerial responsibilityp. 42
Government changesp. 46
Who serves in government and how long do they last?p. 54
Who servesp. 55
How long do ministers last?p. 65
Political effectsp. 76
Separating the effect of individual characteristicsp. 76
The determinants of ministerial hazard ratesp. 78
Conclusionp. 83
The prime minister and cabinetp. 87
Prime ministerial stylesp. 89
Survivor functions for different prime ministersp. 109
Conclusionp. 115
Performance measures and forced exitsp. 117
Introductionp. 117
Resignations and non-resignationsp. 119
Differences between prime ministers and parties in powerp. 127
Proximate causes of forced exitsp. 132
Conclusionsp. 148
Ministerial performance and tenurep. 150
Our assumptionsp. 152
Performance and tenurep. 154
Descriptive analysisp. 157
Empirical strategyp. 160
Hazard rate estimatesp. 165
Conclusionsp. 170
Conclusionp. 173
Referencesp. 179
Indexp. 190
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