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Accounting for Ministers uses the tools of modern political science to analyse the factors which determine the fortunes of Cabinet ministers. Utilising agency theory, it describes Cabinet government as a system of incentives for prime ministerial and parliamentary rule. The authors use a unique dataset of ministers from 1945 to 2007 to examine the structural and individual characteristics that lead to the selection and durability of ministers. Sensitive to historical context, it describes the unique features of different Prime Ministers and the sorts of issues and scandals that lead to the forced exit of ministers. The authors identify the structural factors that determine ministerial performance and tenure, seeing resignation calls as performance indicators. Probing the nature of individual and collective responsibility within Westminster forms of government, its rigorous analysis provides powerful new insights into the nature of Cabinet government

The Tiebout model, which theorizes that residential choice can regulate the supply of local collective goods, has generated much criticism, but few empirical tests of its behavioural assumptions. The article presents the findings of the first British micro-level test of the effect of local taxes and services on geographical mobility, a postal survey of households' moving decisions in four London boroughs during the years of the poll tax. Taxes and services are found to be important factors in the moving decision, corroborating the behavioural assumptions of the model. Respondents acted Tiebout-rationally as those moving into low tax/good service quality boroughs are more likely to cite low taxes and good services as a moving factor than those doing the reverse. The policy implications, however, remain contingent on political orientation. (British Journal of Political Science / AuD)

Introduction:Between justice and democracy /Keith Dowding [and others] --Are democratic and just institutions the same? /Keith Dowding --Democracy is not intrinsically just /Richard J. Arneson --'The probability of a fit choice': American political history and voting theory /Norman Schofield --Contractarian theory, deliberative democracy and general agreement /Albert Weale --Democracy, justice and impartiality /Robert E. Goodin --Mimicking impartiality /Jon Elster --Justice, democracy and public goods /David Miller --The common good /Philip Pettit --Individual choice and social exclusion /Julian Le Grand --Subnational groups and globalization /Russell Hardin.

This collection of essays brings together leading political scientists in order to address the challenges faced by democracy in the 21st century. The contributors tackle the changing nature of democratic ideas, in particular equality in society and the satisfaction of citizens