The American President’s Cabinet

Bennett, Anthony J.

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“…Historically, for example, in most countries ministers started out as individual advisers to and agents of the monarch, without collective responsibility or decision-making. In the US presidential system there is a White House Cabinet Room, and although many presidents at some time promise to use it for its intended purpose, delegation is still first and foremost from the president directly to individual ministers (Fenno 1959;Bennett 1997). The other way to avoid circular delegation is where ministers are merely members of the principal, with no delegated powers.…”

Section: Introduction: Ministers As Agents or Principal?mentioning

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Ministers as double agents? The delegation process between cabinet and ministers

Andeweg¹

2000

European J Political Res

107

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Delegation from cabinet to ministers is complicated because the cabinet consists of the same ministers that are supposed to act as its agents. In the extreme case ministers are completely autonomous within their portfolio. This paper argues that the resulting potential for agency loss is limited, but not negated, by both hierarchy and collective decision-making in cabinet, or by establishing direct delegation relationships between legislative committees or political parties and ministers, bypassing the government. Appointments to ministerial office are the prevailing exception to ministerial autonomy. To the extent that ministerial preferences are not stable and exogenous, screening before appointments is an ineffective control, and ministerial identification with departmental interests is the most probable source of agency loss.

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Section: Introduction: Ministers As Agents or Principal?mentioning

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Ministers as double agents? The delegation process between cabinet and ministers

Andeweg¹

2000

European J Political Res

107

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“…The concept of governance has, of course, undergone a number of changes over the past decades compared to these classical statements. Accordingly, governance is sometimes referred by either the term government or governance (Turpin & Tomkins, 2007, 391-400;Bennett, 1996). According to the authors Pollitt and Bouckaert, governance became a popular denomination in the late 1990s, thanks in part to the New Public Management movement.…”

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Administrative procedural and litigation aspects of the review of governmental actions

Fazekas

2022

IAJAS

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The main aim of this paper is to investigate the administrative procedural and litigation aspects of judicial review of governmental actions under the scope of the political question doctrine in Hungary. Governmental actions, due to their political nature, are usually excluded from judicial review, which means that an important safeguard of rule of law does not apply to them. As a result, serious constitutional concerns arise, especially when these decisions, in addition to their political nature, have a legal nature, too, or are administrative adjudicative ones. In these cases, procedural safeguards are even more important. The paper therefore examines such borderline cases in the practice of the Hungarian administrative courts and of the Constitutional Court regarding the existence of judicial review in these cases. The research has not comprehensively covered judicial practice, but focuses only on some characteristic decisions. In addition to examining court cases, the paper covers the statutory background and the theoretical foundations as well.

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“…Pero sus características en los presidencialismos son diferentes: nombrados directamente por el presidente, tanto sus soportes organizacionales, sus trayectorias y competencias, como sus márgenes de acción varían. Si en Estados Unidos los gabinetes ministeriales han retenido la atención de muchos investigadores (Mann & Smith 1981;Macy Adams & Walter 1983;Wyszomirski 1989;Virgala Foruria 1994;Bennet 1996), en América Latina la investigación sobre ellos ha sido dispar. Recientemente crecieron los estudios de ciencia política que los abordan, enfocando los criterios que guían su conformación, las relaciones de los ministros con otros poderes y las razones por las que abandonan el gabinete (Camerlo 1990;Amorim Neto 1994;Martínez-Gallardo 2011;; o su relación con las reformas estructurales en la región (Geddes 1994;Altman & Castiglioni 2008;Corrales 2010).…”

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Sociología política de las elites. Apuntes sobre su abordaje a través de entrevistas

Gené

2014

Rev. Sociol. Polit.

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El presente artículo reflexiona sobre los principales desafíos y potencialidades del abordaje histórico y cualitativo de las elites políticas, en particular a partir del trabajo con entrevistas en profundidad. Se identifican algunos interrogantes para los cuales esta metodología resulta particularmente pertinente y se reconstruyen los principales desafíos del trabajo de campo con los sectores dirigentes. Partimos para ello de una investigación sobre las elites del Ministerio del Interior en Argentina desde la vuelta de la democracia en la que triangulamos distintos tipos de fuentes: entrevistas en profundidad, archivos, normativa, material de prensa y bibliografía especializada. Lejos de dar por sentada la eficacia de las entrevistas en términos generales y abstractos, se revisan los alcances y límites de esta fuente de indagación para reconstruir la socialización política, las trayectorias y las prácticas de las elites políticas. Asimismo, se reconstruyen algunos de los principales obstáculos recurrentes en el trabajo de campo -relacionados con la accesibilidad, la temporalidad y la presencia de discursos "oficiales" o prefabricados- y los modos de superarlos. En particular, argumentamos que dicha estrategia metodológica es fecunda para: a) rastrear entradas en política y reconstruir trayectorias de los agentes de forma densa y contextualizada; b) identificar saberes valorados, códigos compartidos y fronteras simbólicas que tienen efectos sobre el campo político; y c) reconstruir prácticas, decisiones y dilemas ante la imposibilidad de "seguir a los actores". En ese sentido, este artículo dialoga a la vez con la bibliografía sobre metodologías cualitativas y con aquella especializada en elites políticas. Procura, por un lado, proveer pistas y recursos a los investigadores que trabajan con entrevistas; y, por el otro, recordar que las elites dirigentes "importan" y no son intercambiables, que no responden a una racionalidad universal y descarnada sino que sus lógicas de acción son complejas e históricamente situadas.

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The American President’s Cabinet

Cited by 27 publications

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Ministers as double agents? The delegation process between cabinet and ministers

Ministers as double agents? The delegation process between cabinet and ministers

Administrative procedural and litigation aspects of the review of governmental actions

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