POL 2104 Lecture Notes - Cabinet (Government), Party System, Parliamentary System

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2104
• Professor: Joseph Roman

Document Summary

January 24, 2013: studying executives and legislatures, parliamentory systems of government: their main features, presidential systems: their main features, the roles. The two are separate: head of gov = pm, head of state= president. Comes in the form of a monarch or president. Some forms- pres might be elected (not always) Because of that he/she lacks substantial political power. Three forms this relationship can take : cabinet government, prime ministerial government, ministerial government. Policy making tends to go more smoothly: goes back to the relationship between the executive and legislature. Tends to be more continuity: terms aren"t fixed, since the pm is the leader of the party with the most seats, whenever there is a new pm things don"t get turned upside down, ie. With the new leader of the liberal party things won"t get turned upside down, however in the states between bush and obama there was a massive change.