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1. The Selection of Ministers around the World

   A Comparative Study

   Edited by Keith Dowding, Patrick Dumont

   Series: Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites

   Cabinets are formed of individual ministers, whose stock may rise and fall, not only with that of their party, but through their general behaviour, their actions, and with the successes and failures of their policies. The book examines the process of selection, shuffling and removal of ministers...

   To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Selection of Ministers in Europe

   Hiring and Firing

   Edited by Keith Dowding, Patrick Dumont

   Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

   This volume discusses the formation of government cabinets within twenty European democracies, providing the institutional background to the selection and de-selection of ministers. Exploring the historical and constitutional context to cabinet formation, this volume proceeds to provide vital data...

   Published November 17th 2008 by Routledge
3. The Civil Service

   By Keith Dowding

   Series: Theory and Practice in British Politics

   Radical reforms of the civil service during the 1980s and 90s have broken up the old unified hierarchical structures. In their place are peripheral agencies concerned with policy implementation and a central core comcerned with policy-making. The radical reforms are described and assessed in terms...

   Published September 6th 1995 by Routledge