PSCI331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Executive Functions
12 Mar 2016
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Week 4: october 5, 2015: the poliical execuive: the first minister and cabinet. The execuive branch: government funcions, legislaion funcion. Making general laws for the state (legislaion: judicial funcion. Determining if laws have been violated; assigning penalies: execuive funcion. Developing policies in response to problems; a course of acion in response to a problem; allocaing resources, regulaing behaviour etc. Implemening decisions (charging people) and enforcing laws (police) Powers are limited by consituional convenions (unwriten rules of poliical behaviour but have evolved over ime to be accepted pracice of our poliical system) Poliical execuive: the government , includes: the chief execuive (aka the first minister) is the pm and premier and the. Members of cabinet are drawn from the house of commons; Execuive branch members are also legislaive branch members powers are fused: cabinet provides leadership and sets policy agenda. Administraive execuive: bureaucracy; public service, machinery to implement execuive prioriies and plans, support poliical execuive by implemening policies and enforcing laws.
