The Early Start Toward Cabinet Office, 1918-55

Buck, Philip W.

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“…In answering the question of who gets selected to be a minister, one can look to an empirical literature that focuses on the observable correlates of ministerial selection. Work by Buck (1963), Rose (1971), King (1981), and Macdonald (1987), for example, shows that British ministers are more likely to have entered the House of Commons at an earlier age and received earlier promotion to junior posts than MPs who are never recruited to ministries. British ministers are also more likely than lifelong backbenchers to have attended Oxford or Cambridge.…”

Section: Parliaments Cabinets Parties and Party Leadersmentioning

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Ministerial Selection and Intraparty Organization in the Contemporary British Parliament

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T his article promotes a characterization of intraparty politics that explains how rank-and-file party members control the delegation of power to their cabinet ministers and shadow cabinet ministers. Using the uncovered set as a solution concept and a measure of party members' collective preferences, we explore the hypothesis that backbenchers' preferences constrain the ministerial selection process in a manner that mitigates agency problems. Specifically, promotion is distributed preferentially to members whose own policy preferences are proximate to the uncovered set of all party members' preferences. Our analysis of ministerial appointments in the contemporary British Parliament supports this view. For both the Labour and Conservative parties, front bench appointments are more sensitive to the collective preferences of backbenchers in each party as measured by the party uncovered set than to the preferences of the parties' leaders.

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Section: Parliaments Cabinets Parties and Party Leadersmentioning

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Ministerial Selection and Intraparty Organization in the Contemporary British Parliament

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“…In general, the literature finds that those who arrive in parliament earlier are more successful in achieving higher office because they are more ambitious. Buck (1963) pointed out, that in the UK House of commons, "[m]inisterial aspirants seize an early opportunity to begin their advance in the official hierarchy, and in most cases they have also begun their career in the Commons at a relatively early age" (Buck 1963: 629). Schlesinger (1966: 176) makes the same point: "[t]he younger a man is when he enters politics, the greater the range of his ambitions and the likelihood of his developing a career commitment to politics".…”

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“…One of the earliest studies of ministerial selection is Buck (1963) which compares UK MPs who did not rise to CM positions with those who did. The major finding is that the MPs who entered parliament at an earlier age and those who received an early promotion to junior roles such as parliamentary private secretary were more likely to become senior ministers.…”

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Cabinet Appointments in the Howard Government 1996-2007

Dalvean

2012

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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". The personal factors are those that are associated with an individual's personal qualities. Thus, an individual who impresses the selectorate with her oratorical or technical skills may stand a higher chance of being selected than another individual who does not have such skills. In this paper I will demonstrate that the representational factors provide negligible explanation for cabinet appointments in the Howard government. In contrast, the personal factors were significantly more important. In particular, I identify the level of concreteness/abstractness in a parliamentarian's first speech in parliament as an important factor.

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“…In one of the earliest examples, Willson (1959) showed that relevant experience in or outside parliament was an important criterion to becoming a member of the government as well as to graduating to the Cabinet in the UK. In the following decades, scholars reported an increasing importance of experience within the House of Commons because more and more government posts went to 'career parliamentarians', who entered parliament at a younger age, had a promotion early on, and showed an ambition towards politics as a profession (Buck, 1963;King, 1981;Macdonald, 1987). As for increasing the representativeness of the government, other personal attributes also proved to be important, e.g.…”

Section: Ministerial Selectionmentioning

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“…At this stage, it is argued, 'the main matter which is left undecided after the voters' choice is the nomination of individuals to specific ministerial post or responsibilities' (De Winter, 1995, p. 117). Understanding the ministerial selection as a rational choice of the leader, empirical studies show that personal attributes (Alderman & Cross, 1986;Buck, 1963;Heppell, 2012;King, 1981;Macdonald, 1987;Rose, 1971;Willson, 1959), party loyalty (Becher & Sieberer, 2008;Jun & Hix, 2010;Kam, 2009), and policy preferences (Kam, Bianco, Sened, & Smyth, 2010) of candidates are the determinants of ministerial selection.…”

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