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The Hollow Crown

Countervailing Trends in Core Executives

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Patrick Weller

    1. Centre for Australian Public Sector Management, Griffith University, Australia

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  2. Herman Bakvis

    1. Dalhousie University, Canada

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  3. R. A. W. Rhodes

    1. University of Newcastle, Australia

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Part of the book series: Transforming Government (TRGO)

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The first volume in a series of comparative studies within the ESRC's Whitehall Programme focuses on core executives in five parliamentary democracies comparing the Westminster model as in Australia, Canada and Britain with the continental democracies of Germany and the Netherlands showing how political leadership is shackled by a vast array of constraints, from globalisation to internal fragmentation and rationalisation, making a heroic model of decisive political leadership hard to sustain.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Hollow Crown: Coherence and Capacity in Central Government

    • Patrick Weller, Herman Bakvis
    Pages 1-15

  3. In Search of the Hollow Crown

    • Michael Saward
    Pages 16-36

  4. Political Parties and the Core Executive

    • Patrick Weller
    Pages 37-57

  5. Collegiality and Collectivity: Cabinets, Cabinet Committees, and Cabinet Ministers

    • Rudy Andeweg
    Pages 58-83

  6. Advising the Executive: Think Tanks, Consultants, Political Staff and Kitchen Cabinets

    • Herman Bakvis
    Pages 84-125

  7. Executive Coordination Mechanisms

    • Glyn Davis
    Pages 126-147

  8. Managing Budgets

    • John Wanna
    Pages 148-175

  9. Decentralization and Public Management Reform

    • Peter Aucoin
    Pages 176-197

  10. ‘Shackling the Leader?’: Coherence, Capacity and the Hollow Crown

    • R. A. W. Rhodes
    Pages 198-223

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 224-252
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Australian Public Sector Management, Griffith University, Australia

    Patrick Weller

  • Dalhousie University, Canada

    Herman Bakvis

  • University of Newcastle, Australia

    R. A. W. Rhodes

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