Patrick Weller

The Prime Ministers' Craft

Why Some Succeed and Others Fail in Westminster Systems

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines how prime ministers work and the means by which they choose to run their governments, and compares four parliamentary systems (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom) over the past 40 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780199646203
• ISBN-10: 0199646201
• Artikelnr.: 51805906

Autorenporträt

Patrick Weller is Professor Emeritus, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University. He is the author or co-author of some 20 books on Australian politics, comparative politics, and international organization, including First among Equals (Allen and Unwin,1985), Malcolm Fraser: Prime Minister (Penguin, 1989) Cabinet Government in Australia 1900 to 2006 ( 2007), Westminster Compared (co-authored with R.A.W. Rhodes and John Wanna, 2009), and Kevin Rudd: Twice Prime Minister (Melbourne, University Press, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Prime Ministers: Conundrums and Dilemmas
2: Getting There, Staying There
3: The Job: Assumptions, Visions, and Workloads
4: The Inner Circle: Prime Ministers and Their Advisers
5: Prime Ministers and Their Ministers
6: Prime Ministers and Cabinet Government
7: Prime Ministers, Party, and Parliament
8: Prime Ministers and the Public
9: Prime Ministers as National Leaders
10: Conclusion: Why Prime Ministers Succeed (Or Not)