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  • April 15, 2017
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Cabinets - UK/US Comparison

US Cabinet: UK Cabinet:

 Cabinet US system - singular executive.  Part of a plural executive + bound by
 All executive power - vested in president, none in the doctrine of collective responsibility.
cabinet - they are cabinet officers, not cabinet  Drawn exclusively from the legislature.
ministers.  All belong to one political party - the
 Drawn from different pools of recruitment, not largest party.
permitted to be serving members of the legislature.  Appointed by the PM + serve them. (PM'S
 Cabinet officers - associated same political party as patronage).
president.  Serve together in shadow cabinet before
 Some are non-political and at least one - 'opposition taking office.
party'.  In terms of election - PM's equal as they
 Cabinet officers appointed by president - but advice + are elected - represent a constituency.
consent of Senate.  Politically, they are prime ministers
 Haven't served together in any shadow cabinet. potential rivals.
 In terms of election - not Presidents equal.  Cabinet - only pool of recruitment of
 President gains office at national election but cabinet PM's.
members - no elective base at all.  Departmental ministers - not policy
 Politically - not presidents potential rival. specialists - moved from one department
 Always policy specialists of the particular department. to another during the lifetime of a
government.
Frequency of Meetings: UK:

 Has declined - predictability has not.
 Emergency meetings can be called at short notice by the PM - crisis.
 Cabinet meetings - discussion takes place + decisions are agreed + PM sums up before 'going round
the table' asking for their 'yes' or 'no'. Cabinet members informally count the 'yes' or 'no' votes.

Frequency of Meetings: US:

 Cabinet meetings are irregular + infrequent.
 Less frequent as the administration progresses.
 No particular day of the week/time set for meetings.
 Caspar Weinberger - 'no regular scheduling' + 'sometimes announced only the day before'.
 Reagan called a cabinet meeting on the day when Thatcher visited the Pentagon + was late to greet
the PM and when he told Thatcher she thought a crisis was happening.
 To a PM emergency cabinet meeting = crisis.
 US cabinet meeting - not a decision making forum - no votes/summing up.
 Anthony King - "president doesn't sum up at the end of the meeting; he is the meeting".
 Meeting described as: pointless, boring meetings.
 UK meetings - less important + the US cabinet more important than conventional wisdom.
 UK government - grown in both scope + complexity - full cabinet seen less + meetings = fewer +
shorter.
 Thatcher cabinet member - challenged by a backbencher - back of the House of Parliament so soon at
the start of the meeting said: "Cabinet meetings? Oh no, we don't have those anymore. We just have
a lecture from Madam!".
 Government business - conducted in cabinet committees + ad hoc groups.
 1968 The Times - full cabinet meetings are now 'occasions for coordination + keeping busy
departmental ministers in touch'.
 These sound like those under G.W.Bush - cabinet used as informative, consultative + discursive
forum for 'big picture items".

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