Who Fires Ministers? a Principal-Agent Approach to Ministerial Deselection
Who fires ministers? A principal-agent approach to ministerial deselection Cristina Bucur BA, MA School of Law and Government, Dublin City University Supervisors: Prof. Robert Elgie & Dr. Iain McMenamin September 2013 Dissertation submitted for the award of PhD to Dublin City University Declaration of Work I hereby certify that this material, which I now submit for assessment on the programme of study leading to the award of PhD is entirely my own work, and that I have exercised reasonable care to ensure that the work is original, and does not to the best of my knowledge breach any law of copyright, and has not been taken from the work of others save and to the extent that such work has been cited and acknowledged within the text of my work. Signed: ID: No: Date: ii Acknowledgements Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the support granted by the Irish Research Council between 2009 and 2012 to write this thesis. The financial assistance offered by the School of Law and Government in Dublin City University has also been invaluable, as it allowed me to undergo specialised methods and language training. I am equally grateful for all the encouragement and advice that the Law and Government staff have always generously given me. To my friends in the postgraduate research rooms, thank you for your tolerance, support, and friendship. I am extremely indebted to my supervisors, Professor Robert Elgie and Dr. Iain McMenamin, for their patience, wholehearted support, and excellent supervision. Thank you for setting me on the right track and for getting me where I am today.
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