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Book review: accounting for ministers: scandal and survival in British Government 1945-2007

Wilson, Richard (2013) Book review: accounting for ministers: scandal and survival in British Government 1945-2007. LSE Review of Books (10 May 2013). Website.

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Abstract

Accounting for Ministers uses the tools of modern political science to analyse the factors which determine the fortunes of Cabinet ministers. Utilising agency theory, it describes Cabinet government as a system of incentives for prime ministerial and parliamentary rule. Lord Wilson has reservations about the attempts to analyse the rich, complex, impossible lives of Ministers with the methods of political analysis used in this book but nevertheless finds it a useful addition to the sum of political knowledge. Accounting for Ministers: Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945-2007. Samuel Berlinksi, Torun Dewan and Keith Dowding. Cambridge University Press. 2012.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information: © 2013 The Author
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited: 23 Oct 2013 08:55
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 18:51
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/53737

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