Ministerial Survival During Political and Cabinet Change: Foreign Affairs, Diplomacy and War

ISBN-13: 9781138193642 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 151 str.

Alejandro Quiroz Flores;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Political leaders need ministers to help them rule and so conventional wisdom suggests that leaders appoint competent ministers to their cabinet.

This book shows this is not necessarily the case. It examines the conditions that facilitate survival in ministerial office and how they are linked to the political survival of heads of government and political institutions. Presenting a new formal theory of political survival in the cabinet, it systematically analyses the tenure in office of more than 7,300 ministers of foreign affairs covering more than 180 countries spanning the years 1696-2004. In doing so, it sheds light not only on studies of ministerial change but also on democratic peace theory in international relations.

This text will be of key interest to students of comparative executive government, comparative foreign policy, political elites, and more broadly to comparative politics, political history and international relations.

O autorze

Alejandro Quiroz Flores is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, UK. His work has appeared at Political Science Research and Methods, the British Journal of Political Science, and International Studies Quarterly, among others. He is also the manager of the Comparative Political Economics Division at the Department of Government.