POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Kim Il-Sung, Offshore Bank, Fusion Of Powers

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1150
• Professor: Mark Yanisziewski

Document Summary

Executive: real part of any government both democratic and non-democratic. Executive tasks: provide overall leadership and direction. Set the policy agenda: overseas implementation of policies. Overseas administration of all key parts of government (agencies, department, boards etc. ) Need direction in order to ensure they are doing what they are supposed to: (autonomy) over foreign affairs. Executive gets to play initial roles in foreign affairs. Executes: formal executive (head of state, political executive (head of government) Cases of (cid:862)fused(cid:863) e(cid:454)e(cid:272)uti(cid:448)es head of state a(cid:374)d go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Canada, queen is head of state and prime minister is head of government. Main reasons for the two different types (fused and non fused) Hoping not to give one person to much po(cid:449)er (cid:271)(cid:455) di(cid:448)idi(cid:374)g po(cid:449)er o(cid:374)e perso(cid:374) (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t get to po(cid:449)erful a(cid:374)d (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e a threat. In british tradition, there is division of labour b/w monarch and prime minister. Large number of dictatorships that have non fused executive.