GOVT1641 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Liberal Democracy, Good Governance, Majority Government
6 May 2020
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The arm of the government that gets things done. The leadership arm of the government: core executive. Decide what can be done and how. The tension between liberal democracy and executive government. People want education, right to education, should be a public good. Executive government must find a way to provide this. The executive is drawn from and directly responsible to an elected legislature. May include a monarch (eg. the uk) or monarch"s representative (eg. May include a monarch (eg. the uk) or monarch"s representative (eg. australia) or an elected president (eg. ireland) Have no significant day to day powers. The one who has power: prime minister and cabinet. But the representative of the queen: governor general. No direct accountability of the executive to legislature. Legislative deadlocks within legislature but also between the legislature and executive. No reason why all government functions cannot be carried out by one institution. Most early liberal dem ocracies developed from monarchies.
