Duopoly, court politics, and the Danish core executive
Duopoly, court politics, and the Danish core executive
This article applies the ideas of the core executive and court politics to the executive of Danish coalition and minority governments. It asks two questions. Do these ideas travel beyond their Westminster origins? What are the dilemmas confronting the Danish executive and its court politics? The analysis is based on documentary sources and 22 elite interviews with ministers and permanent secretaries. It concludes that the analysis of the court politics provides unique insights into the workings of Danish government. It identifies duopoly as a distinctive variety of court politics. It identifies the key dilemmas confronted by the Danish executive; namely trust, political support, and politicisation. The article is a contribution to the comparative analysis of the court politics of governing elites. It shows that the focus on court politics is not only useful for majoritarian Westminster systems but also for the analysis of consensual parliamentary democracies.
court politics, core executive, prime ministers, cabinet, Denmark, Ministry of Finance
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Rhodes, R.A.W.
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Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg
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11 June 2020
Rhodes, R.A.W.
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Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg
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Rhodes, R.A.W. and Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg
(2020)
Duopoly, court politics, and the Danish core executive.
Public Administration, 89 (1), .
(doi:10.1111/padm.12685).
Abstract
This article applies the ideas of the core executive and court politics to the executive of Danish coalition and minority governments. It asks two questions. Do these ideas travel beyond their Westminster origins? What are the dilemmas confronting the Danish executive and its court politics? The analysis is based on documentary sources and 22 elite interviews with ministers and permanent secretaries. It concludes that the analysis of the court politics provides unique insights into the workings of Danish government. It identifies duopoly as a distinctive variety of court politics. It identifies the key dilemmas confronted by the Danish executive; namely trust, political support, and politicisation. The article is a contribution to the comparative analysis of the court politics of governing elites. It shows that the focus on court politics is not only useful for majoritarian Westminster systems but also for the analysis of consensual parliamentary democracies.
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Court Politics Denmark
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Accepted/In Press date: 21 May 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 11 June 2020
Published date: 11 June 2020
Keywords:
court politics, core executive, prime ministers, cabinet, Denmark, Ministry of Finance
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/441056
ISSN: 0033-3298
PURE UUID: 936d5770-2953-42a7-9fed-f5e016b29911
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