Matthew Kerby

TL;DR: In this article, an event history model is developed to estimate the hazard of ministerial appointment for all government party members of Parliament for the period 1935-2008, and existing theories and explanations for ministerial appointments and their relationship to constitutional conventions and political principles are systematically tested using a series of variables identified in the Canadian and comparative literature.

TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between parliamentary questions and political roles in Canada using data compiled from the 34th and 37th Canadian federal parliaments and found that Canadian MPs are both socialised into their roles and that they rationally adapt their behaviour to meet their political needs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors build on existing research to test the hypothesis that the MP career duration is related to MPs' expectations about parliamentary roles, insofar as voluntary turnover is concerned.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine some hypothesised causes of Fine Gael's electoral decline, including the effect of the arrival of the PDs, and Ireland's new coalition politics since 1989.

TL;DR: In this article, the survival functions of ministerial turnover for potential, but not yet appointed, cabinet ministers were estimated were they to survive to a defined political benchmark; these survival rates were included in a logit model of Canadian ministerial appointment following four general elections (1957, 1979, 1984 and 2006) in which the prime minister was tasked with appointing a cabinet with ministerial neophytes.