POLSCI 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thesis Statement
22 Feb 2017
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Explain the trade-off parliamentary and presidential systems make in terms of the range of (governmental) voices heard in the policy process vs. efficient making. Non-political example: finding a restaurant for all of your friends to eat at. The more voices you hear, the harder it will be to make decisions - good and bad. Adopting/changing policy easiest in a majority parliamentary system. Minority or coalition gov"t will have greater difficulty changing policy, but you"ll hear more voices; you"d have to account for more policy choices. Has more institutional veto points - opportunities to block policies/legislation. Legislation has to go through a lot of levels. : often linked to the degree of policy power. If exec has a lot of policy power, i. e. a majority disciplined parliamentary system - we also expect to see no votes of no confidence in this situation. Or is it due to compromise at some lower level i. e. house or senate.
