By Thomas Poguntke, Paul Webb
During this significant new paintings, best specialists come jointly to ascertain the altering function of political events and political management in fourteen sleek democracies. in addition to reading cross-national variations, The Presidentialization of Politics analyses how smooth democracies are more and more following a presidential common sense of governance, in which management is changing into extra principal and extra strong, but in addition more and more depending on winning attract the mass public.
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Is] able to define the strategic direction of government . . choose areas of policy involvement . . [and] has a view of government that is not available to other ministers’ (Smith 1999: 77). While never being ‘totally free’ of other network actors (no actor or institution in any political regime ever achieves this), prime ministers exert influence by being ‘less dependent’ on them. To this end, they require not a ‘monopoly of power’, just ‘sufficient power’. Thus, if it is ‘impossible, and indeed fruitless, to try to identify a single site of power within the core executive’, it is also impossible to suggest that power is ‘everywhere’.
But, subject to any number of variable contingencies, they do have significant conditional power, and growing structural capacity. There are a number of models of executive governance detailing the practical influence a parliamentary chief executive may or may not have. Laver and Shepsle (1994) suggest six models of executive governance: prime ministerial, cabinet, ministerial, bureaucratic, party, and legislative. Dunleavy and Rhodes (1995) propose five: prime ministerial government, prime ministerial clique, cabinet government, ministerial government, segmented decision-making, and bureaucratic coordination.