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100			_aChabal, Pierre M.
245			_aDo ministers matter? The individual style of ministers in programmed policy change
260			_c2003
300			_ap.29-49
362			_aMar
520			_aMany social science approaches to governmental work suggest, mainly through models of policy analysis, that individuals (ministers) `make' little `difference' to (policy) processes. This article argues that, on the contrary, individuals are able to influence, through their policy style, change processes. It draws from field research on 19 ministers and three policy sectors in four political systems (Britain, France, Germany, Spain) and interviews with 179 (former) ministers, cabinet members and high-ranking civil servants. It follows in B. Headey and J. Blondel's footsteps: the `consequences' or the `impact' of ministers. It claims to look at ministerial `efficiency' less by evaluating the work of certain ministers than by comparing types of minister in the ways in which they tackle and overcome (or fail to overcome) the constraints bearing upon the various `compartments' of their policy work. - Reproduced.
650			_aParliament
650			_aPolitics and government
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
909			_a56167
999			_c56167 _d56167