Environmental Politics and Policy

Ward, Hugh; Samways, David; Benton, Ted

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“…But trends since the 1970s have worked in the opposite direction by involving more and more ministers and departments in direct negotiations with overseas counterparts about sectorally specific policies. There has been a progressive transition to joint UK-EC control of some key policies previously autonomously controlled in Whitehallsuch as monopolies/mergers policy, or the setting of clean water and environmental standards (Ward 1990). Such policy areas have also become more important in wider EC relations because of the transition to a single European market in 1992.…”

Section: Prime Ministerid Cliques An Alternative Interpretation (Popmentioning

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“…And assessing the interrelationship between such leadership images and government popularity has been difficult because of two-way causation flows. Again some political economy studies have struck a sceptical noteas in the debate about the relative importance of the Falklands War and improvements in people's economic wellbeing in contributing to Thatcher's large-scale Commons majority in 1983 (Saunders, Ward andMarsh 1987,1989;Dunleavy and Husbands 1985, pp. 153-4).…”

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Core Executive Studies in Britain

Dunleavy

Rhodes

1990

Public Administration

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Discussions of core executive operations in Britain have focused on a limited controversy about whether monocratic control is exercised by the premier or whether more collegial decision making persists in Cabinet. An extended typology of institutionalist views is examined, including the prime ministerial clique interpretation, models of ministerial government, segmented decision making, and bureaucratic coordination. This restricted debate reflects normative anxieties about Britain's unbalanced constitution, partystructured legislature and an inadequate rational policy process inside the executive. New directions for core executive research are examined, including the analysis of decisional studies, more disaggregated and differentiated accounts of the core executive, coalition politics in the core executive, and the analysis of leadership influences. DEFINING CORE EXECUTIVE STUDIESThe innermost centre of British central government consists of a complex web of institutions, networks and practices surrounding the PM, Cabinet, cabinet committees and their official counterparts, less formalized ministerial 'clubs' or meetings, bilateral negotiations, and interdepartmental committees. It also includes some major coordinating departments -chiefly, the Cabinet Office, the Treasury, the Foreign Office, the law officers, and the security and intelligence services. The old overarching term for (some of) these institutions and practices is 'cabinet govemment', but this usage has become inadequate and confusing in two key respects. First, according to many recent commentators the phrase mis-states the currently effective mechanisms for achieving coordination. At best it is contentious, and at worst seriously misleading to assert the primacy of the Cabinet in the amalgam of organizations and mechanisms set out above. Second, the label 'cabinet govemment' describes not just a particular pattern of coordination but also a normative ideal, a constitutional theory of how the very centre of the UK state should operate Uennings 1931). With these two established meanings 'cabinet government' cannot also describe a whole field of study, its controversies and debates.A number of attempts have been made to provide modernized conceptualizations

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Section: Prime Ministerid Cliques An Alternative Interpretation (Popmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: New Directions For Core Executive Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Core Executive Studies in Britain

Dunleavy

Rhodes

1990

Public Administration

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120

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Yesterday in Parliament: British Politicians and Debate over Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, 1970–92

Purvis

1994

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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In this paper British politicians' understanding of, and attitudes towards, an important element of global environmental change are analysed through study of the parliamentary record Hansard, especially questions to ministers. In particular, attention is given to the evolution of debates concerning stratospheric ozone depletion during the period 1970–92, This focus reflects the importance of ozone depiction as an issue per se, but is also consistent with the wider argument that we need to study the development of specific environmental issues if we are to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the greening of politics; a process hitherto frequently considered as a somewhat incoherent whole, The aim is to trace the chronology of concern about stratospheric ozone, to identify the stimuli to interest in the issue, and to analyse the content and limitations of discussion. This last involves examination of interaction between a global environmental issue and the ideologies of the British national party-political system. The value of consideration of national debate about global issues is thus asserted, National and international debate and diplomacy form interacting elements of a ‘two-level game’ through which politics and environmental concerns become engaged. Previous studies which were focused chiefly on the evolution of a new environmental diplomacy at the international level thus tell only part of the story.

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Environmental Politics and Policy

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Core Executive Studies in Britain

Yesterday in Parliament: British Politicians and Debate over Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, 1970–92

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