Anger asMinistersbreak ChildpovertypledgeThe Government met a barrage of criticism yesterday after it failed to reach the first of its four targets designed to eradicate child poverty by 2020.Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
As heads of government, prime ministers are crucial political actors in parliamentary systems, yet there is little understanding of how they are held accountable by legislatures. What are the mechanisms through which parliamentarians may question them? How do such mechanisms vary, and how do ...
government terminationnon-electoral replacementWhen coalition leaders have powers to call a vote of confidence, they can invoke the threat of government resignation or early elections, and raise other actors' costs of voting down the government. In this paper, this insight is applied to coalition ...
They also reiterated their support for the measures proposed in the European Commission's employment package, including measures to promote youth employment and work-linked training.Politics and Government Magazines
This article provides new insights into the characteristics of non-partisan, non-elected ministers and the roles they perform once in government based on a Technocratic Ministers' Dataset covering all governments in 31 European countries from 2000 to 2020. First, we show that ...
EuropeLow Carbon EconomyPublic PolicyministerEuropean CommissionEuropiumNational GovernmentEuropean Unionemissions trading schemePriestspresentationlamb meatIndustry, Research and European Affairs Ministers will look at ways to create a greener economy for Europe at next week's Competitiveness Council in Brussels...
It is said that the government aims to make 36% of all adults hold a higher education qualification by 2014 and 40% by 2020. It is stated that there will be 5,000 additional universities co-funded by employers that the Higher Education Funding Council for England will aid from 2008....
the Scottish government's adviser on nature.This is the second time in five years that Highland Council has decided to support a golf course at Coul Links against the advice of planningofficers.The original golf plans for Coul Links were turned down by Scottish ministers following a public inqui...
In all these countries, providing stable and efficient government is not enough: to achieve a high rating, a prime minister must have accumulated a record of policy innovation. Like their counterparts elsewhere in the Commonwealth, Canadians value change-makers but believe that activism has to be ...
Despite their prominent role in government, existing studies on post-revolutionary Tunisia have largely neglected the role of non-party ministers and technocrats, treating them as relatively marginal actors. The article situates their emergence along a decades-long technocratic turn started under Ben ...