The Hollow Crown: Countervailing Trends in Core Executives

The Hollow Crown asks whether the core executive is being hollowed out by internal fragmentation and globalization. It compares the core executive in five parliamentary democracies, contrasting the Westminster model of Australia, Britain and Canada with the continental parliamentary democracies of Germany and the Netherlands. The book does not provides the usual country-by-country account but compares process as well as the impact of these processes on the government's capacity to produce coherent policy.