What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have
in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of …

In coalition governments, parties invest much effort to manage delegation costs to individual
ministers. In this article, we examine an intra-executive mechanism for managing delegation …

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 …

While there is widespread agreement in the ministerial promotion and resignation literature
that experience matters, experience has typically been defined as the length of time a …

Junior ministers are very common in coalition governments. Existing research argues that
parties assign junior ministers to satisfy the office goals of coalition partners or as a …

Over the years, there have been a variety of changes to candidate selection methods for the
Israeli Knesset. As a result, there have been changes in the way the Knesset functions. This …

Cabinet ministers in parliamentary democracies have significant agenda‐setting power.
However, not all ministers use it equally. This paper examines what affects the ministers' use …

We test three criteria for recording data about the formation of a new government and the
allocation of its portfolios using the case of Israel. We then analyse Gamson's Law and …

Статья посвящена анализу роли парламентского опыта в предшествующей карьере
членов правительства РФ. Эмпирической основой исследования служит …

The prospects of domestic punishment might compel leaders responsible for the initiation of
the war to continue fighting until they achieve favorable war outcomes (Croco 2011, 2015) …