Part I: Theorizing Ministerial Leadership
Chapter 1. Introduction - why a book on ministerial leadership?
Chapter 2. Ministering - ministerial leadership in practice
Chapter 3. The Ministerial Role - activism and agency
Part II: The Ministerial Identity and Mindset
Chapter 4. Becoming a Minister
Chapter 5. Shaping the ministerial mindset.-Chapter 6. Time Control
Part III: Performing Ministerial Leadership
Chapter 7. Leading the Department
Chapter 8. The orchestrated collective leadership of government
Chapter 9. Ministers Decide?
Chapter 10. Gender and Ministering?
Chapter.11. On the circuit: the system leadership of ministers
Chapter 12. Ministerial Performance
Chapter 13. The emergence of the delivery focused minister
Part IV: After Ministerial Leadership
Chapter 14. Losing Ministerial Office - Political Natality, Political Mortality and the ministerial life-cycle
Chapter 15. The political is also personal
Chapter 16. Conclusion - Learning about Ministerial Leadership.