Cabinet Government in France.

Cabinet Appointments in the Howard Government 1996 – 2007

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that were associated with cabinet appointment in the Howard Government 1996 – 2007. Broadly, the factors that are cited as important in cabinet appointment in general fall into two categories: the representational and the personal. The representational factors are those that are associated related to an individual’s role as a “representative”....

Government in Crisis: Opening the “Black Box” of Intra-Cabinet Competition Over Budgetary Allocation∗

With the onset of the current economic and financial crisis in Europe, questions about the power of core executives to control fiscal outcomes are more important than ever. Why are some governments more effective in controlling spending while others fall prey to excessive overspending by individual cabinet ministers? We approach this question by opening the “black box” of intra-cabinet decision...

Legislative Productivity and Divided Government in the US and France

Comparing rates of legislative productivity in periods of unified and divided control of the executive and legislative branches in the US and France, we show first that the concept of ―divided government‖ is more complicated than scholars have allowed. In the US, truly unified government, where the president enjoys a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate as well as a majority in the House, is...

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Speaker Attribution in Cabinet Protocols

Historical cabinet protocols are a useful resource which enable historians to identify the opinions expressed by politicians on different subjects and at different points of time. While cabinet protocols are often available in digitized form, so far the only method to access their information content is by keyword-based search, which often returns sub-optimal results. We present a method for en...