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what are prime ministerial powers of patronage?
the ability to hire and/or fire government ministers
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in what way are powers of patronage limited?
in a political sense, they must appoint based on wide ideology, gender, ethnicity etc
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name an example of a prime minister who had to appoint cabinet ministers with a wide range of ideological viewpoints?
theresa may had to appoint boris johnson and david davis due to status, ideology and the trouble they would cause on the backbenches
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what is the constitutional convention of indivisibility and mutual dependence?
the Haldane model
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what does the Haldane model supposedly prevent?
avoids arbitrary use and abuse of powers
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who is the core executive?
Prime Minister, the Cabinet, the Cabinet Committees, the Cabinet Office, the government departments and the Senior Civil Service
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what two constitutional documents supposedly secure indivisibility and mutual dependence of the core executive?
1918 report on the machinery of government, 1943 carltona doctrine
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what does the British system of government embody?
advice not codified rules
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why is there no need for seperation of administrative (civil servants) powers and political (cabinet and PM) powers to be seperate?
as the experience and objective view of the civil service advises objectively with no agenda
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what is the interdependence contingent on?
context
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what clearly shows that the PM has very few formalised powers?
the cabinet manual (PM certain prerogatives, the cabinet = ultimate decision making body)
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what has the PMs informal powers generally relied on?
personalism
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what is personalism?
the ability for the PM to yield authority in order to have greater power in their government
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what are institutional frameworks?
formalised codes of practice
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what does the PM rely on for power?
informal frameworks
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which government created many institutional frameworks for the powers of the PM to be strengthened and outlined?
the Blair/ Brown government
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what did thatcher do to yield more powers?
increase amount of aides + increased the size of policy unit
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what did tony blair do in 1997 to increase the prime minister's powers in 1997?
he increased the size of the 'policy directorate' changing agenda to ensure all departments are aware of PM's aims not so much formulations
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what was the (2002) strategy unit?
it oversaw strategy to to help 'build' departments
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what was the impact of the strategy unit (2002)?
consolidated control over strategy process
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what was the PM delivery unit?
focused on delivery of PM's core objectives- overseeing achievement of government goals
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what happened in 2010 which changed the patterns of dependence, allowing for patterns of dependence to change and departments to rely more on NO10?
capability to direct policy due to government special advisors to oversee and comment on policy proposals
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what did cameron do about the creation in recent years of institutionalised powers?
gone back on some of the extensions of powers e.g- strategy units
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what is more important than ubiquitous PM powers?
collective cabinet and ministerial government
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what does the uncodified constitution prevent?
the formalisation of PM powers
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how can a PM tactically exert powers?
by focusing on policy of strategic importance
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give an example of when the PM could not use personalism and authority to direct ministers into creating certain policy?
when tony blair could not direct gordon brown into entering the Eurozone
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what is the PM's power contingent on?
it's relationship with the core executive
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what is the role of a prime minister?
political leadership, national leadership, appointing ministers, chairing cabinet meetings, managing the executive, prerogative power, managing relations with parliament, representing the UK in international affairs
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who else do prime ministers appoint?
their own senior advisors
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what does the power of patronage also include?
appointing life peers to the lords
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what does the power to nominate life peers also lead to? example?
the ability to dominate the lords, tony Blair appointed 162 labour peers
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what scandal occured surrounding the powers of patroange?
the cash for honours scandal (2007)
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