Technocratic Ministers and Political Leadership in European Democracies

1. Beyond Party Government? Technocratic Trends in Society and in the Executive
António Costa Pinto, Maurizio Cotta, Pedro Tavares de Almeida

2. Non-partisan Ministers Under the French Fifth Republic (1959–2014)
Marie-Hélène Bruère, Daniel Gaxie

3. No More Political Insiders? Ministerial Selection in Sweden During the Post-WWII Period
Hanna Bäck, Thomas Persson

4. Shades of Technocracy: The Variable Use of Non-partisan Ministers in Italy
Luca Verzichelli, Maurizio Cotta

5. The Primacy of Experts? Non-partisan Ministers in Portuguese Democracy
António Costa Pinto, Pedro Tavares de Almeida

6. The Selection and Deselection of Technocratic Ministers in Democratic Spain
Juan Rodríguez Teruel, Miguel Jerez Mir

7. Recruitment and Careers of Ministers in Central Eastern Europe and Baltic Countries
Elena Semenova

8. Variations in the Expert Ministerial Framework in Hungary and Romania: Personal and Institutional Explanations
Gabriella Ilonszki, Laurentiu Stefan

9. Turkey’s Ministerial Elites: The Growing Importance of Technical Expertise
Sabri Sayarı, Hasret Dikici Bilgin

10. Technocratic Government Versus Party Government? Non-partisan Ministers and the Changing Parameters of Political Leadership in European Democracies
Maurizio Cotta

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, Political Leadership, European Politics, Comparative Politics, Democracy