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Core Executives in a Comparative Perspective

Governing in Complex Times

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Editors:
  1. Kristoffer Kolltveit

    1. Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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  2. Richard Shaw

    1. School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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  • Analyses the interaction between political and administrative executives in a variety of governmental systems
  • Utilizes case studies from Westminster systems, continental Europe and Scandinavia
  • Draws on the analysis of administrative insiders in each chapter case study

Part of the book series: Understanding Governance (TRG)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Setting the Scene

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. In the Beginning: The Story of a Concept

      • Kristoffer Kolltveit, Richard Shaw
      Pages 3-25

    3. Core Executive Studies in the Wild

      • Richard Shaw, Kristoffer Kolltveit
      Pages 27-51

    4. Court Politics: From Metaphor to Theory

      • R. A. W. Rhodes
      Pages 53-76

  3. Core Executives in Westminster Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Court Politics in an Age of Austerity: David Cameron’s Court, 2010–2016

      • R. A. W. Rhodes
      Pages 79-121

    3. Ireland’s Core Executive at One Hundred Years of Self-government: Navigating Coalition, Crisis and Complexity

      • Bernadette Connaughton
      Pages 123-141

    4. New Zealand: The Core Within the Core

      • Richard Shaw, Rose Cole
      Pages 143-161

  4. Core Executives in Continental Countries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. On a Wild Goose Chase? The (Core) Executive in Germany

      • Anna Hundehege, Thurid Hustedt
      Pages 165-187

    3. The Netherlands: How Weak Prime Ministers Gain Influence

      • Erik-Jan van Dorp, R. A. W. Rhodes
      Pages 189-208

  5. Core Executives in Scandinavia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. The Swedish Executive: Centralising from Afar

      • Erik Brinde, Thurid Hustedt, Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen
      Pages 211-233

    3. The Danish Core Executive: From ‘Duopoly’ to ‘Monopoly’?

      • Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen, Amalie Trangbæk
      Pages 235-254

    4. The Norwegian Core Executive: Baronial Courts and Inner Circles?

      • Kristoffer Kolltveit, Jostein Askim
      Pages 255-276

  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277
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    2. Continuity and Change: Explaining Developments and Looking to the Future

      • Kristoffer Kolltveit, Richard Shaw
      Pages 279-301

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 303-309
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About this book

This book examines the contemporary relevance of the concept of the core executive across a range of constitutional contexts, covering examples from Westminster system, continental Europe, and Scandinavia. Much study of core executives focuses exclusively on the Westminster system, but this book expands that scope to take into account nations where coalition government has been the norm for decades. Focusing on the interaction between the political and administrative executives, the book addresses tensions between the two that have become increasingly apparent in an age of populism and mediatisation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Kristoffer Kolltveit

  • School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Richard Shaw

About the editors

Kristoffer Kolltveit is a professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway. His research interests include political and administrative elites, media impact in the central administration, cabinet decision-making and bureaucracy.

Richard Shaw is Professor of Politics at Massey University, New Zealand. His research interests focus on different facets of the advent of ministerial advisors in parliamentary democracies, and on political-administrative relations in comparative contexts.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Core Executives in a Comparative Perspective

  • Book Subtitle: Governing in Complex Times

  • Editors: Kristoffer Kolltveit, Richard Shaw

  • Series Title: Understanding Governance

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94503-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94502-2Published: 07 May 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94505-3Published: 07 May 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94503-9Published: 06 May 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2947-4221

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-423X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 309

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Governance and Government, Legislative and Executive Politics

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