POL 2104 Lecture 1: POL2104 Lecture 1: POL2104 Winter 2018 Lecture 1: Jan 18 - Executives and Legislatures
20 Jan 2018
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Executive and legislature are fused and therefore mutual dependency arises. The role of the executive and the legislature. How they function in parliamentary, presidential, semi presidential systems. Relationships between the legislature and the executive. Pros and cons of the parliamentary, presidential, semi presidential systems. Serve a representative function: achieved through representation through population will ensure that there is adequate local representation in local governments, geographical fairness, Aggregate and articulate public opinion: central governments are remote from other places, range of public opinion ensures government are unbiased, national. Legislatures can be organized in two ways: unicameral and bicameral. Unicameral: one legislative body, one single body representing the population, Bicameral: two legislative houses, usually lower house (representation by population, reps are elected) and upper house (form of regional representation, these reps may or may not be elected, can/uk not elected, germany and usa are elected)
