Pathways to power : selecting rulers in pluralist democracies / edited by Mattei Dogan.

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.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Dogan, Mattei
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2019.
Series:New directions in comparative and international politics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Selecting cabinet ministers / Mattei Dogan
  • Career pathways to the cabinet in France, 1870-1986 / Mattei Dogan
  • Presidential personnel and political capital : From Roosevelt to Reagan / Margaret Jane Wyszomirski
  • Selecting chief executives in Norway and the United States / Donald R. Matthews
  • How to become a cabinet minister in Italy : Unwritten rules of the political game / Mattei Dogan
  • Junior ministers and ministerial careers in Britain / Donald D. Searing
  • The making of a Japanese cabinet / Hiromitsu Kataoka
  • Pathways to India's national governing elite / Richard Sisson
  • Selection of cabinet ministers in Ireland, 1922-1982 / John Coakley and Brian Farrell
  • Selection by lot in ancient Athens / C. Fred Alford
  • Irremovable leaders and ministerial instability in European democracies / Mattei Dogan.