

Part I: Setting the scene 1. In the beginning: The story of a concept (Kristoffer Kolltveit and Richard Shaw) 2. Core executive studies in the wild (Richard Shaw and Kristoffer Kolltveit) 3. Court politics: From metaphor to theory...

This book examines the contemporary relevance of the concept of the core executive across a range of constitutional contexts, covering examples from Westminster system, continental Europe, and Scandinavia. Much study of core executives focuses exclusively on the Westminster system,...