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Swimming for Their Lives—Waving or Drowning? A Review of the Evidence of Ministerial Overload and of Potential Remedies for It.

There is a range of evidence pointing to the problem of overload on government ministers in both the UK and other Westminster-system countries. This article reviews evidence from the time of Gladstone to the present day, concentrating on evidence relating to the last twenty five years. It surveys th...

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Published in:Political Quarterly Vol. 80; no. 3; pp. 339 - 351
Main Author: LAUGHRIN, DAVID
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jul-Sep2009
Subjects:
Ministerial responsibility
Cabinet officers
Cabinet system
Organizational behavior
Organizational change
Work measurement
British politics & government, 1945-
Great Britain. Parliament
Great Britain. Parliament > Rules & practice
United Kingdom
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