Prime ministerial staff in post-communist central and Eastern Europe: A role assessment by cabinet ministers

Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 256-271

  Müller Rommel, Ferdinand ^a  

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EID: 43149121138     PISSN: 13523279     EISSN: 17439116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13523270802003095     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Jean Blondel and Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (eds.), Governing Together: The Extent and Limits of Joint Decision-Making in Western European Cabinets (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993)
2. Michael Laver and Ken Shepsly (eds.), Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
3. Guy Peters, R.A.W. Rhodes and Vincent Wright (eds.), Administering the Summit: Administration of the Core Executive in Developed Countries (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)
4. Vincent Wright and Jack Haywood, 'Governing from the Centre: Policy Co-ordination in Six European Core Executives', in R.A.W. Rhodes (ed.), Transforming British Government (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), Vol.2, pp.27-46.
5. One exception is the study by Klaus H. Goetz and Helen Z. Margetts, 'The Solidarity Center: The Core Executive in Central and Eastern Europe', Governance, Vol.12, No.4 (1999), pp.425-54.
6. The interviews were conducted in the individual countries between July 2003 and April 2004: Bulgaria (25) Czech Republic (21); Estonia (39); Hungary (40), Latvia (40), Lithuania (34), Poland (45), Romania (33), Slovakia (22) and Slovenia (21). The 320 ministers represent effectively half of the total number of ministers (901), who were in office between 1991/92 and 2003, because we excluded those who had died, those who were still in office, those who had been in office less than twelve months and those who had been in office before the constitution was implemented. The dataset, the questionnaire, and the codebook are available at .
7. Jean Blondel, Ferdinand Müller-Rommel and Darina Malova, Governing New European Democracies (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007), pp.3-6.
8. In Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia the deputy ministers are also mentioned in the constitution.
9. Jean Blondel and Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, Cabinets in Eastern Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2001).
10. Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, 'Ministers and the Role of Prime Ministerial Staff', in Blondel and Müller-Rommel (eds.), Governing Together pp.131-52 (p.134).
11. Radoslaw Zubek, 'A Core in Check: The Transformation of the Polish Core Executive', Journal of European Public Policy, Vol.8, No.6 (2001), pp.911-32.
12. Martin Brusis, 'Europeanization, Party Government or Legacies: Explaining Executive Governance in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Hungary', Comparative European Politics, Vol.3, No.2 (2004), pp.163-84 (p.176).
13. Goetz and Margetts, 'The Solidarity Center', p.439.
14. Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, 'Management of Politics in the German Chanellor's Office', in Peters et al. (eds.), Administering the Summit, pp.81-100.