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Political leaders need ministers to help them rule and so
conventional wisdom suggests that leaders appoint competent
ministers to their cabinet. This book shows this is not necessarily
the case. It examines the conditions that facilitate survival in
ministerial office and how they are linked to ministerial
competence, the political survival of heads of government and the
nature of political institutions. Presenting a formal theory of
political survival in the cabinet, it systematically analyses the
tenure in office of more than 7,300 ministers of foreign affairs
covering more than 180 countries spanning the years 1696-2004. In
doing so, it sheds light not only on studies of ministerial change
but also on diplomacy, the occurrence of war, and the democratic
peace in international relations. This text will be of key interest
to students of comparative executive government, comparative
foreign policy, political elites, and more broadly to comparative
politics, political economy, political history and international
relations.
Political leaders need ministers to help them rule and so
conventional wisdom suggests that leaders appoint competent
ministers to their cabinet. This book shows this is not necessarily
the case. It examines the conditions that facilitate survival in
ministerial office and how they are linked to ministerial
competence, the political survival of heads of government and the
nature of political institutions. Presenting a formal theory of
political survival in the cabinet, it systematically analyses the
tenure in office of more than 7,300 ministers of foreign affairs
covering more than 180 countries spanning the years 1696-2004. In
doing so, it sheds light not only on studies of ministerial change
but also on diplomacy, the occurrence of war, and the democratic
peace in international relations. This text will be of key interest
to students of comparative executive government, comparative
foreign policy, political elites, and more broadly to comparative
politics, political economy, political history and international
relations.
Quantitative social scientists use survival analysis to understand
the forces that determine the duration of events. This Element
provides a guideline to new techniques and models in survival
analysis, particularly in three areas: non-proportional covariate
effects, competing risks, and multi-state models. It also revisits
models for repeated events. The Element promotes multi-state models
as a unified framework for survival analysis and highlights the
role of general transition probabilities as key quantities of
interest that complement traditional hazard analysis. These
quantities focus on the long term probabilities that units will
occupy particular states conditional on their current state, and
they are central in the design and implementation of policy
interventions.
Fully revised and reorganized by Anna Getmansky and Alejandro
Quiroz Flores to fit the exciting new edition of Bruce Bueno de
Mesquita's Principles of International Politics, this accompanying
workbook continues to feature class-tested, user-friendly exercises
that walk students through the building blocks of the strategic
method, ensuring that even novice students have the opportunity to
develop and hone their problem-solving skills and can successfully
apply what they have learned in the text. The fifth edition of
Applying the Strategic Perspective: Problems and Models, Workbook
introduces students to a wide range of problems so that they master
basic principles as well as test their capabilities with more
challenging material. Easy for students to use, and with perforated
pages for turning in assignments.
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