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Prime Ministerial Power Flashcards

1
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Name 3 models of prime ministerial power?

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  1. the core executive
  2. pre-dominance model
  3. presidentialisation
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Who put forward the core executive model?

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Dunleavy, Rhodes and Smith

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What is the system of the Core Executive model?

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that power is shared between the cabinet and the prime minister

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What are the 3 aspects of the core executive model?

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  1. structure
  2. agency
  3. context
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give an example of structure?

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institutions, laws and traditions

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give an example of agency?

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individuals and their actions

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give an example of context?

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the political enviroment

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Who put forward prime ministerial predominance?

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Heffernan

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What is the premise of prime ministerial predominance?

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that PM has certain institutional resources that bestow him with greater power

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What are examples of these personal powers?

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patronage, chairs cabinet meeting, policy leadership etc.

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What other resources can contribute to prime ministerial power?

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individual qualities

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12
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What are the 2 types of prime minister?

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pre-dominant and pre-eminent

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what is pre-dominant prime minister (and examples)

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Blair, Thatcher and Cameron, it is a prime minister with more power than the norm

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What is a pre-eminent prime minister and example?

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Wilson and it is a prime minister with less power than usual

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What does a pre-dominate prime minister require?

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utilisation of both institutional and personal resources

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16
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Constraints of patronage?

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aim for ideological balance, Macmillian night of the Long Knives and coalition agreement

17
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what are the constraints of PMs authority in cabinet?

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it still requires support, senior minister still have authority (Brown)

18
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What are the constraints on PM power of agenda setting?

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cabinet ministers have authority, PM has limited resources, it may be difficult to achieve policy success and the coalition agreement

19
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Who is associated with the theory of presidentialisation?

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Micheal Foley

20
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What is the distance called between the leadership of the party and other members of government?

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‘leadership stretch’

21
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what is ‘spatial leadership’?

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When the PM creates distance between their selves and their party

22
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what does spatial leadership indicate?

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decline of party government

23
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Who proposed critiques to presidentialism?

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Dowding and Heffernan

24
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What was the critques to presidentialism?

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US president operates within a different system to UK
PM is party leader therefore there is a fusion of powers
centralisation of powers makes PM less like a president
personalisation is not presidentialism

25
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who said that UK PM is more powerful than US president?

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Dowding

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