POG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Treasury Board Secretariat, Anthropomorphism, Responsible Government

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Patrice Dutil

Document Summary

We should investigate the limits imposed on the exercise of power which it operates and extent on its influence on the often insignificant aspects of the hierarchy and the forms of control, surveillance, prohibition, and constraint. Everywhere that power exists, it is being exercised . 4 categories of state: the legislature, the executive, the bureaucracy, the courts and constitutions. Institution of our government are trying to balance these question: People giving approval to what government has proposed legislatures are needed for government to assent it. Unicameral republics (one chamber, republic government, no monarchy) Budgeting for government (only majority can present) Separation between opposition and side of government is the distance between two swords. The duty of the official opposition and other opposition parties is to challenge government policies and suggest improvements, and present an alternative to dominant government. In our system, the government has to respond directly to questions from the opposition.