1st Edition

Pathways To Power Selecting Rulers In Pluralist Democracies

By Mattei Dogan Copyright 1989
    283 Pages
    by Routledge

    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Mattei Dogan