Administering the Summit: Administration of the Core Executive in Developed Countries

✍ Scribed by B. Guy Peters, R. A. W. Rhodes, Vincent Wright (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Series: Transforming Government
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Speaking truth to power demands diplomatic skills. This book looks at the way advice, which is needed by all executives, is provided to the summit of government in twelve advanced industrialized countries (Australia, Belgium, Britain, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, and the US). It examines the increasing pressures for centralization as core executives confront the differentiation and pluralization of government and the interplay of constitutional, political, and institutional factors.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Staffing the Summit — the Administration of the Core Executive: Convergent Trends and National Specificities....Pages 3-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Administering the Summit: the British Prime Minister’s Office....Pages 25-42
Administering the Summit from a Canadian Perspective....Pages 43-58
Administering the Summit: Australia....Pages 59-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Management of Politics in the German Chancellor’s Office....Pages 81-100
The Prime Minister’s ‘Staff’: the Case of Italy....Pages 101-109
A Quasi-Presidential Premiership: Administering the Executive Summit in Spain....Pages 110-133
Sweden: the Quest for Co-ordination....Pages 134-152
How Informal Can You Be? The Case of Denmark....Pages 153-175
Administering the Summit: the Greek Case....Pages 176-195
Serving the Japanese Prime Minister....Pages 196-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Staffing the Summit: France....Pages 225-244
Administering the Summit in the United States....Pages 245-262
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
The Struggle for Control....Pages 265-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-275

✦ Subjects

Science, general