POLS 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Primus Inter Pares, Cabinet (Government), United Kingdom Cabinet Committee
30 Mar 2016
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Executive crown, pm, and cabinet and the bureaucracy. Fusion of powers executive is part of the legislative branch. Charts cabinet meetings and established cabinet processes and procedures. Establishes consensus for cabinet decisions votes are not taken. Provides government"s strategic direction through throne speech. Act as main salesperson for government agenda. Sets mandate for individual ministers little discretion for ministers to set departmental direction. Makes individual policy decisions, circumventing o cial approval process e. g. millennium. Time more demands on the pm"s time than can be accommodated focus on 2 or 3 major policies. Managing cabinet reluctant to re cabinet ministers disruptive. Serve to co-ordinate policies and programs; allocate human and nial resources; control the public service. Created at discretion of the prime minster except for the treasury board. Have evolved greatly over time each prime minster structured di erently. 1945-1964 committees were ad hoc deal with speci c issue, then abolish. Terminated practice of ad hoc cabinet committees.
