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GOVERNING NEW EUROPEAN DEMOCRACIES
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| By: |
Jean Blondel, Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Darina Malova |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£75.60 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230800599 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230800595 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
14 December, 2006 |
| Description: |
Governing New European Democracies is a fully comparative study of decision-making processes in the cabinets of ten post-communist countries of East-Central and South-Eastern Europe. It is based on interviews collected from over 300 ministers. This book provides the first comprehensive panorama of life in cabinet governments. |
| Synopsis: |
Governing New European Democracies is the first truly comparative volume that examines the internal characteristics of cabinet decision-making in ten Central Eastern European countries between 1990 and 2003. On the basis of 320 interviews with former ministers who participated in these decision-making processes, this study examines the role of procedures and rules, parties, civil servants, individual ministers, the finance minister and above all prime ministers on the nature of cabinet decision-making. The work contributes to an empirical comparative framework on streamlining decision-making processes in cabinet governments. The key finding of the study is that Central Eastern European countries have implemented a cabinet system that compares well with governmental systems of Western Europe. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |