Prime Ministers In Dangers

5 gripping, action-packed UK Prime Minister-themed stories from the imagination of Connor Whiteley. An International Bestselling writer, Connor presents 5 very fun and outstanding Danger stories in this one volume. Includes: · Dangers In Plain Sight: A Private Investigator Mystery Short Story · Protecting The Woman She Hated · A Most Unfortunate Case of Spynapping: A Spy Mystery Short Story · A Country In Trouble · A Prime Assassination: A Crime Mystery Short Story Love UK Prime Minister In Danger? Love great stories? Connor gives you both layered on thick in this amazingly fun collection. BUY NOW!

Dangerous Democracies and Partying Prime Ministers examines why elected leaders pursue foreign policies that are remarkably distant from their proposed policies. To investigate this pattern Chad Atkinson develops a model of how the foreign policy preferences of the executive and the legislature interact over the electoral cycle to affect foreign policy choices. The executive is cross-pressured when there is conflict between what his or her constituents want and what the legislature wants. Getting votes is clearly more important when elections are near, so democratic leaders weigh these, competing demands differently over the course of the electoral cycle. This is what can lead to trends in foreign policy: the executive first chooses policies that mollify the legislature and later reverts to policies that please his or her constituents when elections draw near. This book pursues these ideas with a game theoretic model and a set of statistical assessments of multiple cases (Israel and the Palestinians, the US and the USSR, and others) to provide a rigorous and logical framework to the argument. The central findings are that democratic institutions and processes (i.e., the domestic context) have a predictable influence on foreign policy choices overtime, and some configurations of preferences, electoral systems, and election timing are not conducive to peace. Rather than the diversionary hypothesis that conflict is likely before an election-since a boost to executive popularity would be particularly valuable at that moment-a more nuanced finding is reported. Leaders rally around the party and not the flag. When elections approach, leaders pursue policies that are popular with their constituents; politicians from the left pursue more pacific policies and politicians from rightist parties tend to be more confrontational. Book jacket.

Agencies and policies instituted to streamline Ottawa's planning process instead concentrate power in the hands of the Prime Minister, more powerful in Canadian politics than the U.S. President in America. Riveting, startling, and indispensable reading.

This book examines why elected leaders pursue foreign policies that are remarkably distant from their proposed policies. To investigate this pattern this book develops a model of how the foreign policy preferences of the executive and the government in th.

This volume examines how prime ministers work and the means by which they choose to run their governments, and compares four parliamentary systems (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom) over the past 40 years.

This report is concerned exclusively with the Gomery Commission's second mandate: to make recommendations, based on the factual findings of its first report, on a series of issues such as government transparency & accountability, the relationship between public servants and politicians, and the responsibilities that should be assigned to Parliament & parliamentarians. Part one outlines the reforms introduced by the federal government since the Commission was established in February 2004 and the suggestions the Commission heard from Canadians about what they felt should be done about accountability & transparency in government and other issues considered in the first report. Part two has five sections covering accountability issues, including the fundamental bases for the responsibilities & accountabilities of Ministers & senior public servants, the capacity of Parliament to hold the government to account, and the roles of the Prime Minister, Ministers, exempt staff, the Privy Council Office, and the Clerk of the Privy Council. Part three deals with more specific issues such as the future management of advertising & sponsorship activities as well as lobbying. It assesses measures to improve transparency, including legislative initiatives pertaining to information access, whistleblowing, sanctions related to failure to fulfil financial administration obligations, appointments to Crown corporations, and internal audits. Part four contains the Commission's consolidated recommendations which are also found throughout the report. The recommendations are designed to rebalance the relationship between Parliament & government, better assign responsibility, and strengthen accountability in the public interest.

This year marks the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, the fiftieth anniversary of his most impressive general election victory and forty years since his dramatic resignation as Prime Minister. He was one of the longest-serving premiers of the twentieth century, having won a staggering four general elections, yet, despite this monumental record, his place in Labour's history remains somewhat ambiguous. By the end of his two periods in power, both the left and right of the party were highly critical of Wilson - the former regarding him as a traitor to socialism, the latter as contributing directly to British decline. With contributions from leading experts in the fields of political study, and from Wilson's own contemporaries, this remarkable new study offers a timely and wide-ranging reappraisal of one of the giants of twentieth-century politics, examining the context within which he operated, his approach to leadership and responses to changing social and economic norms, the successes and failure of his policies, and how he was viewed by peers from across the political spectrum. Finally, it examines the overall impact of Harold Wilson on the development of British politics.

The British prime minister is universally acknowledged to be the most powerful single individual in the British system of government, but very little is known about what goes on behind the closed door at #10 Downing Street. As Anthony King points out, there are few articles—let alone books—on the prime ministership available to students of British politics either in the UK or the US. As the preface to the American edition states, while the British prime minister and the American president "do resemble each other in some ways, it is important right at the start to recognize the profound differences between them."