{"id":8385,"date":"2004-12-15T14:22:31","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T12:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/?p=8385"},"modified":"2016-05-10T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T10:13:08","slug":"cabinet-minister-turnover-and-longevity-of-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/previous-issues\/no-10\/cabinet-minister-turnover-and-longevity-of-governments\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet Minister Turnover and Longevity of Governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Even though the stability of governments has been under the lens of political scientists for a long time, only in recent times have the changes occurring within a government received attention.<\/p>\n<p>Thus it was thought up to the present time that replacing ministers had a negative effect on government longevity. In analyzing how frequently ministers are replaced in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, we become convinced there is a positive connection. Changes of ministers are a natural phenomenon accompanying government activity, and its effect on government need not be negative. On the contrary, an infusion of fresh blood can increase rather than reduce the durability of a government.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/eelmised-numbrid\/nr-10\/ministrite-voolavus-ja-valitsuste-kestvus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full article in Estonian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the stability of governments has been under the lens of political scientists for a long time, only in recent times have the changes occurring within a government received attention. Thus it was thought up to the present time that replacing ministers had a negative effect on government longevity. In analyzing how frequently ministers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"class_list":["post-8385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-10","topic-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}