PSCI 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mauri People, Bicameralism, Lower House

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2003
• Professor: William Cross

Document Summary

What is covered in class is most important! Nothing from text that we did not talk about in class but tutorial reading is fair. How do our institutions affect our praxtice of democratic politics!!! Parliament it can be a certain government (41st, we are 42nd etc. ) this is periods between elecions sequenially ater next elecion it will be 43rd parliament. Parliament: meeing of representaives (how we talk about it in this course) Having a parliament means we chose a certain form of government (representaive democracy) Representaive democracy: we elect people to represent us and form parliament. We have bicameral legislature: senate and house of commons. In us too but there its two senators per state. Lower house is represented of the regions, and upper is sober second house. In all countries lower house is elected, upper house some elected some appointed.