Cabinet ministers and parliamentary government / edited by Michael Laver, Kenneth A. Shepsle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cabinet ministers and government formation in parliamentary democracies -- Models of government and the Austrian cabinet -- The political role of Norwegian cabinet ministers -- The Netherlands: ministers and cabinet policy -- The political role of cabinet ministers in Ireland -- Finland: ministerial autonomy, constitutional collectivism, and party oligarchy -- Cabinet ministers and policy-making in Belgium: the impact of coalition constraints -- The role of cabinet ministers in the French Fourth Republic -- The political autonomy of cabinet ministers in the French Fifth Republic -- The role of German ministers in cabinet decision making -- Cabinet ministers and parliamentary government in Sweden -- The political role of cabinet ministers in Italy -- Ministerial autonomy in Britain -- Collective cabinet decision making in New Zealand -- The interpersonal dynamics of decision making in Canadian provincial cabinets -- Cabinet decision makingin the Hellenic Republic 1974-1992 -- Cabinet government in theoretical