care-may actually prove harder than reshaping acute services and redirecting medical students. The biggest barrier, however, may be London itself. The report touches on the fact that health services cannot be seen in isolation: poverty, unreliable transport, violence, collapsed social services, rotten housing, and poor education all work against the sort of health service that the commission wa...

During the administration of Barisan Nasional in Malaysia, three Prime Ministers, namely Abdul Razak, Mahathir Mohamad and Najib strategically incorporated China factor to attract support Chinese voters their respective election campaigns. These campaigns took place 1974, 1999, 2013. It appeared that Ministers perceived a preference among community for China, despite were born Malaysia or had b...

In 2006 seven foreign ministers from Brazil, France, Indonesia, Norway, Senegal, South Africa, and Thailand initiated a dialogue on the inter-linkages between health and foreign policy, with a focus on how health matters to foreign policy and whether foreign policy can make a difference to health. What brought the ministers together was the realization that the state of global health has a prof...

The introduction to this special issue begins by presenting a recent puzzle – the increasingly strong position of Japanese prime minister, who has traditionally been regarded as weak, in contrast fragile United Kingdom strong. To make sense these developments, reviews existing academic perspectives related ministerial leadership with specific focus on literature UK and ministers. It subdivides ...

With the onset of the current economic and financial crisis in Europe, questions about the power of core executives to control fiscal outcomes are more important than ever. Why are some governments more effective in controlling spending while others fall prey to excessive overspending by individual cabinet ministers? We approach this question by opening the “black box” of intra-cabinet decision...

The Advisory Committee of Releases into the Environment (ACRE) is an independent advisory committee composed of leading scientists and technical experts. Our main function is to give statutory advice to UK ministers and ministers in the Devolved Administrations on the risks to human health and the environment posed by the release and marketing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This repo...