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  Green Party of Canada | Shadow Cabinet | www.greenparty.ca
The Shadow Cabinet is an alternative cabinet to the government who shadows and provides critical opposition on policy matters to the government’s position.
This cabinet is elected and appointed in accordance with the bylaws.
Some posts remain open and there is scope to augment the Shadow Cabinet to address key issues.
www.greenparty.ca /en/contact/shadow_cabinet   (60 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Shadow cabinet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Shadow Cabinet, are the leading members, or frontbenchers, of an opposition party, who generally hold critic portfolios "shadowing" cabinet ministers, questioning their decisions and proposing policy alternatives.
The shadow cabinet is the term used to denote a specific group of critics in each opposition party, especially for those in the Official Opposition party.
Each member of the shadow cabinet is the critic of a specific government department or portfolio, thus holding the government to account on matters concerned with that area.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shadow-cabinet   (842 words)

  
 The shadow cabinet | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics
Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury: Philip Hammond
Shadow minister for the Cabinet Office and shadow chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster: Francis Maude
Shadow secretary of state for innovation, universities and skills: David Willetts
politics.guardian.co.uk /conservatives/page/0,,635175,00.html   (239 words)

  
 Green Party of Canada | Shadow Cabinet | www.greenparty.ca
The Shadow Cabinet is an alternative cabinet to the government who shadows and provides critical opposition on policy matters to the government’s position.
This cabinet is elected and appointed in accordance with the bylaws.
Some posts remain open and there is scope to augment the Shadow Cabinet to address key issues.
www.partivert.ca /en/contact/shadow_cabinet   (51 words)

  
 Conservative Party - Shadow Cabinet
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and General Election Campaign Coordinator
Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills
www.conservatives.com /tile.do?def=people.shadow.cabinet.page   (161 words)

  
 Beliefs - Telford Conservatives
Shadow Foreign Secretary and Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet
Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, and Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Shadow Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government
www.telfordconservatives.com /ShadowCabinet.htm   (118 words)

  
 The Democratic Party | Community Blogs | Ollie Jones's blog: Needed: Shadow Cabinet
We need a well-organized and disciplined shadow cabinet, with shadow secretaries of defense, state, transportation, homeland security, transportation, health, housing, and the rest.
Pelosi, being in the line of succession for the presidency, should chair the shadow cabinet.
They need to be a press resource, responding to Rove administration actions so that newspaper articles say "the Democratic shadow Secretary of State said, blah blah blah." Shadow-cabinet members need to be asked to give testimony at congressional hearings.
www.democrats.org /page/community/post/olliejones/CL2H   (270 words)

  
 Mapleleafweb.com: Democracy Workings - What is the shadow cabinet?
The shadow cabinet is the term used to denote a specific group of critics in each opposition party, especially for those in the Official Opposition party.
Traditionally the shadow cabinet of the Official Opposition was viewed as a body likely to form the actual cabinet should the party win power.
Each member of the shadow cabinet is the critic of a specific government department or portfolio, thus holding the government to account on matters concerned with that area.
www.mapleleafweb.com /features/democracy/shadowcabinet.htm   (165 words)

  
 Cabinet at AllExperts
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 Shadow Cabinet, are the leading members, or frontbenchers, of an opposition party, who generally hold critic portfolios "shadowing" cabinet ministers, questioning their decisions and proposing policy alternatives.
en.allexperts.com /e/c/ca/cabinet.htm   (915 words)

  
  Enhanced Nuclear Policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The two bodies of Federal Council and Shadow Cabinet, where each is elected by the membership, in effect creates two executive like bodies within the party where power and accountability tensions are likely to arise.
If Shadow Cabinet members are elected by the party's membership, personalities may become elected who do not agree with the Leader, the leadership of the party, or with other shadow cabinet members -- causing disunity in shadow cabinet and inconsistent messaging to the public.
Further, members of shadow cabinet may become elected in order to advance their own political message and not that of the membership as a whole.
www.alternatives.com /skisby/shadow_cabinet.htm   (370 words)

  
 Shadow Cabinet (comics)
In the fictional universe of Milestone Comics, the Shadow Cabinet is a secret organization of superhuman beings acting to protect the world by neutralizing potential threats while they are still relatively harmless - "to save humanity from itself, no matter what that requires".
The Cabinet's eponymous comic book began in 1995 and lasted nineteen issues (#0-#18); they have appeared in other Milestone comics both before and after that time.
As various Cabinet members may be sent on "deep-cover" missions lasting months, or even years (during which time some choose to defect, their total membership at any time is known only to their leader.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/sh/shadow_cabinet__comics_.html   (451 words)

  
 Shadow - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
A shadow cabinet, in the parliamentary tradition of the Undead Kingdom and her colonies, is a group of opposition members in the House, each of which is assigned the task of acting as critic of one government department or ministry.
Each cabinet member in the government therefore has his or her shadow, an opposition member who is typically an undead or zombie politician and is in office solely to haunt the governing party to its grave.
As the shadow cabinet is drawn from the benches of the Opposition, it is in no way expected to actually be capable of governance.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Shadow   (322 words)

  
 Shadowing Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As issues arise, the appropriate cabinet member is the point-man for the opposition, presenting to the press what would have happened if the shadow cabinet were handling the situation, and in the process critiquing the actual cabinet member.
A shadow cabinet member who does a good job of persistently and coherently criticizing the elected cabinet member may very well be able to influence government policy, despite not having an official title.
Also, there is the presumption that if the cabinet member is doing his or her job competently then the shadow cabinet has a chance of becoming the cabinet-elect after the next election, and will then have the power to fully effect the changes they had promised as shadows.
www.brookings.edu /views/op-ed/20041104klemens.htm   (708 words)

  
 The Post Online (Cameroon): ‘Shadow Cabinet Is Ploy To Divert Public Attention’
He said the appointment of the Shadow Cabinet is an attempt by Fru Ndi and his advisers to divert public attention from real issues ailing the party and the nation.
Muna argued that the notion of Shadow Cabinet could only be understood in a presidential system with a complete separation of powers as in the US and the parliamentary system without separation of powers as it exists in the UK.
He said Fru Ndi's latest invention of a Shadow Cabinet would give the leeway for some people to be called "your excellency."Muna said his faction was working hard to produce political material with which to educate all party militants on party policies and programs.
www.postnewsline.com /2006/08/shadow_cabinet__1.html   (1911 words)

  
 Kanu factions battle over Shadow Cabinet
Kanu Chairman Uhuru Kenyatta finally released his Shadow Cabinet list, which was immediately followed by a counter one by his archrival Nicholas Biwott, with a declaration the battle for supremacy would now be fought in Parliament.
The shadow Minister of State in the Office of the President is Bomet MP Nick Salat.
Shadow cabinets are constructed by opposition parties to serve as the government-in-waiting.
www.eastandard.net /archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid=24635   (673 words)

  
 Even a Shadow Cabinet Causes Controversy in Uganda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The members of the shadow cabinet are supposed to propose alternative policies and views to those of the respective government cabinet ministries.
Like in the eagerly anticipated announcement of the ruling government cabinet, the names of the shadow cabinet, which had delayed to come, have been announced, generating dissatisfaction from different circles that were not appointed or represented in the shadow cabinet.
Surprisingly, the biggest noise is coming from the FDC MPs (the party had to chose the shadow cabinet and lead the opposition since they got more seats in parliament than any opposition party) some of who are breathing fire for being excluded from the shadow cabinet announced by Prof.
www.ugpulse.com /articles/daily/homepage.asp?ID=431   (921 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
The adjective "loyal" is used because, while the role of the opposition is to oppose Her Majesty's Government, it does not dispute Her Majesty's right to the throne and therefore the legitimacy of the government.
Some parliamentary parties, notably the British Labour Party and the Australian Labor Party, elect all the members of their shadow cabinets in a partyroom ballot, with the Leader of the Opposition then allocating portfolios to the Shadow Ministers.
In other parliamentary parties, the membership and composition of the Shadow Cabinet is generally determined solely by the Leader of the Opposition.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Shadow_Cabinet   (205 words)

  
 shadow cabinet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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www.cabinetline.com /cabinet-dentaire/shadow-cabinet.html   (279 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
The Official Loyal Opposition Shadow Cabinet (normally referred to simply as 'The Shadow Cabinet') is, in British parliamentary practice, a group of members from Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition whose job it is to scrutinise their opposite numbers in government and come up with alternative policies.
Not every Conservative frontbench spokesman is a member of the Shadow Cabinet, which represents the most senior spokesmen only (usually around 20).
In recent years the Liberal Democrats have started to style their senior front-bench team as a Shadow Cabinet although convention has usually only applied the title to the senior front-bench team of the principle opposition party.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Official_Opposition_Shadow_Cabinet_(UK)   (151 words)

  
 Cabinet Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Cabinet is made up of the Leader and five other councillors who are chosen by the County Council from the majority party, currently Labour.
Members of the Shadow Cabinet are responsible for familiarising themselves with the specialist area(s) of the County Council's work covered by their corresponding Cabinet member's portfolio and for effective challenge and scrutiny of the Cabinet and that Portfolio Holder; and a role as a County Councillor representing their local communities.
Cabinet members can also make certain decisions known as 'delegated decisions' and details of the types of decisions they can make can be found in Table 4b of Appendix 1 to the constitution.
www.staffordshire.gov.uk /yourcouncil/committees/cabinethomepage   (470 words)

  
 Discourse.net: Why Kerry Will NOT Appoint a 'Shadow Cabinet'
The blogs have been abuzz with the idea that Senator Kerry should appoint a shadow cabinet—a means of having spokespersons dog the administration on the major issues.
[S]hadow cabinets have not been used in the United States because Mr.
I suppose if the ‘shadows’ were appointed by the DNC, without input from Kerry, that would avoid the legal problem…but it would blunt the political impact.
www.discourse.net /archives/2004/03/why_kerry_will_not_appoint_a_shadow_cabinet.html   (500 words)

  
 The Cabinet versus the Shadow Cabinet
The MDP cabinet has the coolest round up of Maldivian politicians and the Gayyoom and his cronies would wish that they had such a "dream" cabinet but unfortunately they don't.
The MDP shadow cabinet has very capable individuals with lots of experience in politics, economics and the legal area.
The present MDP cabinet is a much stronger and credible cabinet than the Gayyoom cabinet and could bring the Gayyoom cabinet to its knees any day.
www.minivannews.com /news/news.php?id=1631   (1397 words)

  
 JLP shadow cabinet to issue formal reply on death penalty delay - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
The decision was made during yesterday's first meeting of the new shadow cabinet at the party's Belmont Road offices in Kingston.
The shadow cabinet also decided to review the US State Department report on human trafficking which downgraded Jamaica on the basis that it was a transit point for illegal immigrants moving to the United States and Canada.
Yesterday, the shadow cabinet also gave approval to a resolution to be tabled in Parliament by the leader of the opposition calling for a review of the Corruption Prevention Act as is required by law.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20050608T000000-0500_81975_OBS_JLP_SHADOW_CABINET_TO_ISSUE_FORMAL_REPLY_ON_DEATH_PENALTY_DELAY.asp   (494 words)

  
 Shadow Cabinet - New Music - Peoplesound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
SHADOW CABINET was formed in 1994 when a group of talented individuals based in the London N.W.10 area came together with a true passion for hip-hop, and a determination to be successful in the field of MC-ing, without compromising the integrity of the artform.
As the usual story goes, both groups, as well as other members of the SHADOW CABINET have had numerous setbacks as a result of labels not fulfilling their end of their deals, and broken promises from so-called managers and industry insiders.
Over the years, the SHADOW CABINET have been sharpening their skills by performing at the occasional show, and by ripping up the occasional open mic session.
www.peoplesound.com /artist/shadowcabinet?score=1&rateID=40513   (557 words)

  
 Sena-BJP combine forms M’rashtra shadow Cabinet - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The shadow cabinet members are expected to keep a close watch on the developments in the departments allotted to them.
A member of the shadow cabinet is given a department, for which he or she is the Opposition’s chief spokesperson.
The shadow cabinet members are expected to analyse decisions of the state Cabinet taken at its weekly meetings.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/feb092005/n1.asp   (659 words)

  
 Matthew Yglesias: Shadow Cabinet
Dan Drezner and Bruce Bartlett both say it would be a good idea for challengers to run with "shadow cabinets" of future appointees to key positions.
I've never checked this out myself, and I have some doubts that it would apply to a party's candidate announcing a "shadow cabinet" of fellow party members, who, presumably, are supporting their candidate anyway (if, perhaps, with more enthusiasm now).
In addition to the attacks on the individual, the naming of a shadow cabinet would also generate a demand for more policy specifics from the shadow secretaries, and giving specific policies -- which will always help some while hurting others -- during an election campaign is nearly always a bad move.
yglesias.typepad.com /matthew/2004/07/shadow_cabinet.html   (2477 words)

  
 Shadow cabinet in Maharashtra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The opposition in Maharashtra has decided to form a shadow cabinet to keep the Vilasrao Deshmukh government on its toes.
In the UK and Canada, members of shadow cabinets often get the same posts when their parties come to power.
Maharashtra's Shadow cabinet is not the first of its kind in India.
us.rediff.com /news/2005/jan/20maha.htm   (465 words)

  
 Liberal Democrats : Kennedy Announces Shadow Cabinet
Sarah Teather MP joins the Shadow Cabinet for the first time as Shadow Secretary for Communities and Local Government.
Additional appointments outside the Shadow Cabinet are; Chris Huhne MP as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury; Nick Clegg MP as Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs; and David Heath MP as Shadow Leader of the House and Department for Constitutional affairs.
Lord Razzall, Chair of the Campaigns and Communications Committee, is also invited to attend Shadow Cabinet meetings by virtue of party office.
www.libdems.org.uk /news/story.html?id=8656&navPage=news.html   (488 words)

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