POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Magna Carta, 6 Years, Elective Dictatorship
7 Dec 2014
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Format of midterm: multiple choice and essay. Which of these are not a presidential system: conceptual questions four choices and find the best answer. *they are simply the rules of the game, two sets of institutions: voting systems, distributions of power. Today we are focusing on distribution of power. Comes from westminster system and is the most common system in the world. *west minister is specific to great brittan but parliamentary is for the rest of the world. Glorious revolution was bloodless 1688, the parliament takes power over stewardess were closet catholics. 1832 reform act, up until then the system of ridings were very corrupt called rotten verbs no popular votes, the people were appointed sometimes by the crown the. Reform act got rid of the corruption (ex. Edmund burke, institutions are like nature they work because they develop over time, incrometically and pragmatically parliamentary system is strong because it is the slow and steady growth over the years.
