Is the Westminster model dead?
For more than a century, the Westminster system was one of the most influential models of public administration in the world. Countries in the “Westminster world” claimed the benefits of a strong executive and an impartial, professional bureaucracy. The October issue of Governance examines the health of the Westminster model today. In their introduction to the special issue, Dennis Grube and Cosmo Howard pose the big question: Is the model “under threat, dying, or already dead?” Read the introduction to the special issue.
