POS 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Militarism, Upper House, Camp David Accords
16 May 2019
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Presidential system: voters elect the president and congress. The president forms their own cabinet: congress: 538 seats. Coalition: when different small parties form a government. Parliamentary system: house of commons (power) and house of lords (ceremonial: voters elect different parties to parliament (house of commons). Whichever party has more seats in house of commons forms the government. Pm appoints department heads: no-confidence vote: legislative vote that the sitting government must win to remain in power, parliament: 650 seats. Disciplined parties: party discipline and loyal opposition. Divided germany: the cold war in microcosm: soviet union east (communist, u. s. west (democratic) The legislature: bundestag: lower; legislative activity, bundesrat: upper; informal influence on legislature; appointed by states. Political parties: social democratic party, christian democratic union/christian socialist union, small free democratic party, green party. Major institutions: european council and council of ministers, the commission, the european parliament, the court of justice.
