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British Cabinet Government has been designed as a textbook for undergraduates and A-level students. It provides an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of this central aspect of British politics, together with an analysis of proposed reforms. Drawing on a wealth of new material that has become available during the 1980s, this book examines the growth of pressures on the Cabinet system since 1945. It traces the decline in the role of the Cabinet, the growth of powerful committees, and the predominance of the Prime Minister, most dramatically apparent during Mrs Thatcher's tenure of Downing Street. Simon James analyzes the balance of power between ministers and civil servants, the complex and sometimes prickly relations between Prime Ministers and their colleagues, and the ways in which foreign, economic and domestic policies are decided. He examines the impact upon the Cabinet of EC membership and compares the British experience to Cabinets in other European and Commonwealth countries. The author also identifies weaknesses in the system - pressures on ministers, the fragmentation of decision-making, and the lack of strategic focus in the system - and examine government and public administration.

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• Preface to the second edition(p. vii)
• Acknowledgements(p. ix)
• A note on sources(p. xi)
• 1 Describing the Cabinet system(p. 1)
• 2 Ministers and their departments(p. 12)
• 3 Collective decision-making: Cabinet committees and the Cabinet(p. 49)
• 4 The role of the Prime Minister(p. 88)
• 5 The dynamics of collective decision-making(p. 138)
• 6 Problems of the Cabinet system(p. 172)
• 7 Advice at the centre(p. 196)
• 8 Conclusion(p. 238)
• Further reading(p. 250)
• Notes(p. 255)
• Bibliography(p. 257)
• Index(p. 270)

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An excellent short overview of cabinet government in contemporary Britain. The volume begins with a chapter detailing the difficulties of describing the cabinet system and follows with chapters on "how the Cabinet system works in practice": the policy-making roles of ministers and their officials, policy coordination between departments, the roles of the prime minister in the cabinet, and the dynamics of decision making. The book concludes with a chapter detailing the "faults" of the system and another describing ways of remedying those faults. A very useful book both for generalists interested in comparative politics and specialists on British politics. Recommended for all university libraries. A. Katz; Fairfield University