This article examines ministerial turnover in the cabinets of the German Länder by analyzing the determinants of the length of ministerial tenure in the respective governments. The analysis draws on a newly compiled dataset that comprises all cabinets of the sixteen German Länder from 1991 to 2010. Survival analysis shows that aggregate factors describing the (institutional) political setting, such as the type of government (coalition), as well as the parliamentary strength of the government parties influence the hazard for ministerial turnover, while the ideological distance between coalition partners does not show a significant effect. In addition, several individual characteristics of the ministers are of relevance. For example, regional...
Abstract: This paper is dedicated to the study of institutional change in the Federal Republic of Ge...
This paper studies ministerial turnover in Scandinavia, focusing on group level differences of outco...
Based on a new comparative data set on coalition governance in 15 European parliamentary and semi-pr...
This article introduces the measure of portfolio duration as an indicator for political stability ...
Ministerial careers can be notoriously nasty, brutish, and short, with the doctrine of ministerial a...
The survival of governments ultimately depends on the survival of its components. These components a...
We analyse the determinants of ministerial hazard rates in the UK from 1945-1997. We focus on three ...
How and why do the formal structures of ministerial departments change? This study presents the find...
This article expands our current knowledge about ministerial selection in coalition governments and ...
Political elite studies so far have often dealt with career paths before entering a particular polit...
This paper studies signs and reasons of decline of job stability in West Germany. Using data from th...
Trotz nach wie vor bestehender Unterrepräsentation werden immer mehr Ministerien in den deutschen Bu...
Die Frage, ob es institutionelle Regeln oder Merkmale der politischen Kultur sind, die den personell...
This paper is dedicated to the study of institutional change in the Federal Republic of Germany. Sta...
The structure and organisation of the machinery of government is key to theambitions of political co...
Abstract: This paper is dedicated to the study of institutional change in the Federal Republic of Ge...
This paper studies ministerial turnover in Scandinavia, focusing on group level differences of outco...
Based on a new comparative data set on coalition governance in 15 European parliamentary and semi-pr...
This article introduces the measure of portfolio duration as an indicator for political stability ...
Ministerial careers can be notoriously nasty, brutish, and short, with the doctrine of ministerial a...
The survival of governments ultimately depends on the survival of its components. These components a...
We analyse the determinants of ministerial hazard rates in the UK from 1945-1997. We focus on three ...
How and why do the formal structures of ministerial departments change? This study presents the find...
This article expands our current knowledge about ministerial selection in coalition governments and ...
Political elite studies so far have often dealt with career paths before entering a particular polit...
This paper studies signs and reasons of decline of job stability in West Germany. Using data from th...
Trotz nach wie vor bestehender Unterrepräsentation werden immer mehr Ministerien in den deutschen Bu...
Die Frage, ob es institutionelle Regeln oder Merkmale der politischen Kultur sind, die den personell...
This paper is dedicated to the study of institutional change in the Federal Republic of Germany. Sta...
The structure and organisation of the machinery of government is key to theambitions of political co...
Abstract: This paper is dedicated to the study of institutional change in the Federal Republic of Ge...
This paper studies ministerial turnover in Scandinavia, focusing on group level differences of outco...
Based on a new comparative data set on coalition governance in 15 European parliamentary and semi-pr...