POL 101W Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Public Address System, Unicameralism, United Kingdom Cabinet Committee
14 Apr 2017
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Parliamentary system: a system of governing in which there is a close interrelationship between the political executive (prime minister and cabinet) and parliament (the legislative or law-making body) Voters could hold governments accountable by supporting or defeating the governing party in an election. Cohesive parties made the house of commons an adversarial bod where governing party defended its actions and her majesty"s loyal opposition held the government accountable. In many other countries, consensus based, power sharing parliamentary systems are adopted: result of adopting proportional representation electoral systems that lead to coalition governments with a greater balance in power between the executive and parliament. Parliamentary systems of many former british colonies, including canada, australia, india and caribbean countries are modelled on the westminister system. Is the executive responsible to the legislature no = presidential. Executive legislative relations in parliamentary systems (i) Basic feature of parliamentary systems is the close interrelationship of parliament the political executive.
