Cabinets and Decision-Making Processes: Re-Assessing the Literature

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Authors

  • Michelangelo Vercesi
When it comes to illustrate how cabinets work and to classify them, one very promising way is to look at their internal decision-making processes. In this paper, I give a comprehensive picture of cabinets in parliamentary and semi-presidential systems on this basis. In particular, in the first part, I review what the literature has proposed in this respect. Secondly, after illustrating some shortcomings of the works at issue, I revise a famous Andeweg’s proposal, providing an amended typology of cabinets based on two dimensions. For each of the eight ideal-types stemming from it, some empirical examples are illustrated
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Comparative Politics
Volume5
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)4-27
Number of pages24
ISSN1338-1385
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Politics - Cabinet, Decision-Making, Typology, Prime Minister, Executive