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  ::The Cabinet and British Politics::
The Cabinet is appointed by the Prime Minister.
The current Cabinet members who buck this trend are Gordon Brown who is considered to be highly skilled in economic matters and Estelle Morris, who as Minister for Education, has a teaching background.
This according to current constitutional theory, is where the Cabinet meets as a body to discuss issues relevant to the country.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /cabinet_and_british_politics.htm   (648 words)

  
 Cabinet - Politics.ie Wiki
The cabinet is made up of the Taoiseach, Tánaiste, Government Ministers, the Government Chief Whip and the Attorney General.
The Cabinet meets on a weekly basis to discuss how recent events may require a change in the direction of government policy.
New legislation will be proposed and passed at Cabinet level before it is put to the Dáil for a vote to become law.
www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=Cabinet   (128 words)

  
  Cabinet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In countries with a presidential system, such as the United States, the cabinet does not function as a collective legislative influence; rather, their primary role is as an unofficial advisory council to the head of government, consisting of the heads of the executive departments they are appointed to lead.
In some countries, cabinets are required to be appointed from sitting members of the legislature while in others, such as the United States, cabinet members may not be sitting legislators; they must resign their legislative office if they accept a cabinet appointment.
The day-to-day role of most cabinet members is to serve as the head of one segment of the national bureaucracy, as the head civil servant to which all other employees in that department report.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cabinet   (1045 words)

  
 Country profile Switzerland
Cabinet meetings are held every Wednesday at eight in the morning, and generally last till midday, after which lunch is taken in a Bern restaurant.
Cabinet ministers are not members of parliament, but regularly have to make the case for their legislation, in both chambers.
The nearest the cabinet gets to a fully-fledged coalition is a joint but non-binding report on cabinet aims during a four-year legislative period.
www.swissinfo.org /eng/country_profile/detail/Politics.html?siteSect=2605&sid=5246574&cKey=1155904891000   (2894 words)

  
 Cabinet Magazine Online - On Evil: An Interview with Alain Badiou
Politics is not the management of the power of the State.
Politics is first the invention and the exercise of an absolutely new and concrete reality.
Certainly, the politics of emancipation, or egalitarian politics, have not, thus far, been able to resolve the problem of the power of the State.
www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/5/alainbadiou.php   (4198 words)

  
 Cabinet Magazine Online - The Wall and the Eye: An Interview with Eyal Weizman
One was the politics of pine trees versus olive trees.
That is true, but beauty has an incredible political significance in the context of this conflict, and we tried to show it in these terms.
When we talk about the panorama in terms of the picturesque and the pastoral, we claim that, in fact, beauty is thought of as both a commodity and a strategy in terms of the views from the settlements.
www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/9/wall.php   (5793 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Harper at the helm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He has provincial cabinet experience, holding a variety of portfolios, including minister of community and social services with responsibility for francophone affairs, minister responsible for children, associate minister of francophone affairs, chief government whip, deputy house leader, minister of energy and government house leader.
A lawyer and entrepreneur, Clement also has provincial cabinet experience where he was minister of transportation, minister of environment, minister of municipal affairs and housing and minister of health and long-term care.
In the Ontario cabinet, Flaherty was the minister of labour and served as acting solicitor general and minister of correctional service.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/harper_conservatives/cabinet.html   (3099 words)

  
 Bajans' Cabinet politics, PNP's dilemma - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
As Trinis blend bacchanal politics - particularly that of the main Opposition United National Congress (UNC) - with their carnival, the political parties in Guyana would be increasingly competing for attention in preparation for general elections in five months' time.
A dramatic climax to the factionalism politics in the DLP was the recent unprecedented development of Clyde Mascoll quitting as opposition leader to crossover to the BLP.
Mascoll's indecent political somersault will continue to haunt him as he summons all his skills to defend and foster the BLP government's policies and strategies he had so virulently opposed in and out of Parliament, as a spokesman for the DLP.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /columns/html/20060225T150000-0500_99438_OBS_BAJANS__CABINET_POLITICS__PNP_S_DILEMMA_.asp   (940 words)

  
 Politics section :: Business Day
Affirming it as the focus of his one-year mission, the former army chief-appointed-premier by the military coup makers pledged to......
Of the 26 new cabinet members, only two are retired or serving military officers besides the premier, who is a former army......
The exodus followed an order by the Council for Democratic Reform which stipulates that in the advent of a court order to disband a political party, executive members will be banned from contesting elections for five years.
www.biz-day.com /politics   (542 words)

  
 RealClear Politics - Commentary
Condi Rice, former political science professor and provost of Stanford University, has been briefing George W. Bush on foreign policy matters for more than two years is recognized as one of the preeminent scholars in the field.
And for those who still think Bush's nominations are driven primarily by symbolism or politics, ask yourself whether Bush would have made different choices had the the election been a landslide in his favor.
Having a member of the opposite party in his cabinet was always part of his plan for changing the tone in Washington.
www.realclearpolitics.com /Commentary/com-12_17_00_TB.html   (441 words)

  
 Politics of the Solomon Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Politics of the Solomon Islands takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic monarchy within the Commonwealth, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in the Solomon Islands by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.
Each ministry is headed by a cabinet member, who is assisted by a permanent secretary, a career public servant, who directs the staff of the ministry.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_the_Solomon_Islands   (1133 words)

  
 Row over family values splits Cabinet | Politics | The Observer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A leading minister is to rally to the defence of single parents amid a growing cabinet split over whether the government should champion marriage.
Tony Blair, famed for one of the strongest marriages in politics, is said to be concerned that the Conservative leader's argument has resonance, while other colleagues fear the demonisation of single parents and cohabitees.
Brown's wife, Sarah, was raised by her mother for some years after her parents divorced and the couple are close to author J K Rowling, who has campaigned on behalf of lone parents.
observer.guardian.co.uk /politics/story/0,,2021027,00.html   (761 words)

  
 The Fox cabinet and Mexican campaign politics
On the politics side, prior to Creel stepping down the National Action Party, or PAN (the party of both Fox and Creel), had announced its convention schedule and rules for the upcoming nomination of its 2006 presidential election candidate.
Many political analysts however are now apprehensive that Espino’s suggestion, although apparently disregarded, could trigger a PAN stampede to and from cabinet positions and elections.
This in turn could create a domino effect and a new period of discontinuity and lack of coordination as new appointees reshuffle their teams to bring in new, loyal but untested executives, at a time when concentrated efforts focusing on immediate results are needed.
www.mexidata.info /id508.html   (748 words)

  
 israelinsider: politics: Olmert's Cabinet take shape, but questions remain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert presented a new Cabinet lineup that includes the daughter of a legendary Zionist underground fighter as foreign minister and a dovish former union boss as defense minister.
Tzipi Livni, the rising star of Israeli politics, was named foreign minister and vice premier, making her the second-most powerful player in Israel's male-dominated politics.
Pollard's Israeli attorney said she filed suit with the Israeli Supreme Court, seeking to overturn Rafael Eitan's appointment as Minister of Pensioners' Affairs in a new Israeli coalition government due to be sworn in on Thursday.
web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Politics/8377.htm   (1482 words)

  
 cbs4.com - Big Fla. Cabinet Races Overshadowed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
During a restructuring of the Cabinet completed in 2002, the treasurer and comptroller positions were combined to create the chief financial officer.
Each also serves on the Cabinet, which makes decisions with the governor on issues like land purchases and deciding whether felons should have voting rights restored or be allowed to own a gun once they've served their sentences.
The Cabinet also oversees several state departments, including the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, the Department of Revenue and the Office of Insurance Regulation.
cbs4.com /politics/local_story_007165136.html   (1115 words)

  
 Living in Peru » News » Politics
However, Estrada did not specifically discard the possibility of contracting a political bond with President Alan Garcia's APRA party, as long as it is for the sake of fighting against extreme poverty and corruption.
He explained that is political alliance agrees to a salary reduction, demonstrated during the presidential election campaign, but when the amount for operative expenses stays the same or even increases, congressmen representing rural Peruvian areas will not be able “traveling to their provinces to fulfill their duty”.
The Cabinet leader maintained that the country's stability is the main priority and reminded that in 2001 a proposal to return to the Constitution of 1979 was rejected.
www.livinginperu.com /news/politics   (10493 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Paul Martin
From 1976 to 1978, Pettigrew served as director of the political committee of the NATO Assembly in Brussels.
The 58-year-old Montreal-born social worker began her political career in Quebec's National Assembly, holding a number of cabinet positions for the Liberal government.
She was considered a star candidate and parachuted into federal politics in a 1995 by-election.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/martin_paul/cabinet2004.html   (3479 words)

  
 Presidential Profile: George W. Bush's Cabinet
But if Bush's early cabinet members and advisors had considerable government experience, they, like others before them, could also boast of extensive corporate connections.
Bush, the first president with an MBA degree, appears to be following a similar course in choosing the cabinet for his second term.
This chart is not intended to convey that the listed companies in any way endorse the Center for Responsive Politics or its work.
www.opensecrets.org /bush/cabinet.asp   (353 words)

  
 New Zealand Cabinet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Cabinet Committee comprises a subset of the larger Cabinet, consisting of a number of ministers who have responsibility in related areas of policy.
Cabinet Committees go into considerably more detail than can be achieved at regular Cabinet meetings, discussing issues which do not need the input of ministers holding unrelated portfolios.
Cabinet Committees will often discuss matters referred to them by Cabinet itself, and then report back the results of their deliberation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_Cabinet   (630 words)

  
 Bush's Rush To Overhaul Cabinet - CBS News
Political analysts say the president is moving fast to get his political house in order before driving his second term agenda.
Excluding Ridge, the six other cabinet members who have resigned are: Attorney General John Ashcroft, Commerce Secretary Don Evans, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham and Education Secretary Rod Paige.
When the shakeup is complete this may be the most diverse cabinet in presidential history, with possibly as many as four women and at least seven minorities.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/11/30/politics/main658389.shtml   (1092 words)

  
 Salon.com Politics | Skeletons in the Cabinet
Yet the Democrats, confronted by perhaps the most reactionary Cabinet appointments since James Watt and Ed Meese -- made by a president with even less claim to a mandate than Clinton -- seem prepared to simply wave Ashcroft and Norton through, in the name of Capitol Hill collegiality and a honeymoon-period deference to presidential prerogative.
It isn't a matter of being ruthless partisan hacks, or turning into pathological Bush-haters -- leave that poisonous sewer for Rush Limbaugh and the demented Clinton-hating wing of the GOP to swim in.
The politically untouchable golf industry, where dangerous chemicals are par for the course.
www.salon.com /politics/feature/2001/01/03/cabinet/index.html   (1070 words)

  
 POLITICS-THAILAND: Cabinet Reshuffle Draws Flak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Among the newcomers to the cabinet is Air Chief Marshall Kongsak Vantana, the former head of Thailand's air force.
What is more obvious to Thaksin's critics, though, is that this week's cabinet reshuffle ensured that the prime minister would still retain his position as the most dominant player in his government's second term.
The reason is part of the political pattern that has unfolded since the TRT came to office in 2001, he says.
www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=29769   (873 words)

  
 Canadian Politics
Hosted by Canada, this year’s summit was held at Kananaskis – 4,000 square kilometers of pristine wildnerness located in the Rocky Mountains and foothills...
It was a good question twenty-five years ago, when politicians still basked in the public’s memory of such notable figures as John F. Kennedy and Lester B. Pearson, the Liberal Prime Minister who received the 1956 Nobel peace prize for the...
The Globe and Mail columnist cites recent political developments - such as Jean Chretien’s third majority government and the ongoing disintegration...
www.suite101.com /welcome.cfm/canadian_politics   (508 words)

  
 JMCC / Politics in Palestine /PA Cabinet / Government
Hanieh is considered one of the young political leaders in Hamas who started to emerge as a leading figure in the student movement before moving into the world of politics.
Sheikh Nayef Rjoub is a well known political leader and preaches for Islam in Hebron city and he wrote several books and he is an Imam and preacher and a well known figure in settlement reconciliation of conflicts in the city.
He has a BA in Political Science from the College of Economy and Political Science in Cairo in 1978, and he has a higher diploma in Political Science from the Arab Studies and Research Institute at the Arab League.
www.jmcc.org /politics/pna/pagovmar06.htm   (3475 words)

  
 POLITICS-KENYA: Cabinet Sacked, Parliament Postponed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This is the first time in 42 years of independence that an entire cabinet has been axed in Kenya.
With the constitutional referendum having come to be seen as a vote on the NARC government's performance, some viewed Kibaki's cabinet dismissal as an appropriate step.
"More than even the cabinet, it is parliament which was the central player in the betrayal of the people's constitution," said KANU secretary general William Ruto.
ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=31169   (799 words)

  
 Cabinet hasn't motivated blacks - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - May 11, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In both 1994 and 2000, that number was 24, the highest in recent years, said David Bositis, a senior researcher at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
Additionally, 24 percent said they were politically independent, up from 20 percent in 2000.
Bositis of the Joint Center says that the lack of fl support for Republicans since the 1960s is a major factor behind the political split in America.
www.washtimes.com /national/20040510-113331-6766r.htm   (692 words)

  
 NewsFromRussia.Com Likud ministers to quit cabinet
The Cabinet's approval rating stood at 59 percent, up 3 points from a similar survey in November, a poll report by the business newspaper Nihon Keizai showed More details...
During the meeting, Wen said that with the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Thailand falling this year, the political ties between the two countries are developing very well More details...
Canada's fragile minority Liberal government, which has never managed to shake off the effects of a patronage scandal, is set to be defeated in a parliamentary vote on Monday after 17 months in power.
newsfromrussia.com /politics/2006/01/12/71056.html   (2086 words)

  
 Newsvine - politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby are asking a federal judge not to allow three years of politically charged backstory in the CIA leak case to seep into Libby's perjury trial in January.
The fear factor is being utilized to its fullest as the election nears.
From the article: Down in the polls and with their majorities in Congress at risk, Republicans say they have some good news in early-voting statistics that suggest their voter-turnout machine is providing an edge in some tight races.
www.newsvine.com /politics   (1529 words)

  
 Bush II Cabinet: the shuffle and shape of things to come | csmonitor.com
For those keeping score, the cabinet members besides Rumsfeld who have not resigned or been rumored heading for the exits are: Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, and Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson.
Some cabinet members are leaving because they were, indeed, ready to move on after an exhausting run.
It was President Nixon who, the morning after his reelection, asked all his cabinet members and top aides to tender their resignations, a move that sent morale plummeting, including among those ended up staying.
www.csmonitor.com /2004/1206/p03s01-uspo.html   (1030 words)

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