POLSCI 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: United States Presidential Election, 2016, United Ireland, François Fillon
20 Sep 2017
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Classifying types of democracy: democracy can be classified into three types, 1. Pure policy seeking world: a connected collation is one in which the member parties are located directly next to each other in the policy space. Hypotheses: office seeking world, you would expect to observe least minimal winning coalitions, in terms of german example, the prediction would be a coalition between the. Cdu/csu and greens: policy seeking world, most likely that politicians care about both policy and office they are always making trade-offs. Uk 2017 elections: parliamentary system but occasionally produces minority government. In a presidential democracy, the executive branch and the government are the same thing. The president is regardless of how well his/her party does in the polls: this means that the president appoints (and dismisses) whomever he wants to the cabinet, compare trump (gop) and may (uk conservative party)
