POLS 2910 Study Guide - Final Guide: First-Past-The-Post Voting, Bill (Law), Speech From The Throne

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2910
• Professor: Gabrielle Slowey

Document Summary

Parliamentary democracy - system of democratic governance of a state in which the executive branch derives its democratic legitimacy from, and is held accountable to, the legislature (parliament); the executive and legislative branches are thus interconnected. In a parliamentary system, the head of state is normally a different person from the head of government. This is in contrast to a presidential system in a democracy, where the head of state often is also the head of government, and most importantly: the executive branch does not derive its democratic legitimacy from the legislature. Constitutional monarchy is a form of democratic government in which a monarch acts as a nonpolitical head of state within the boundaries of a constitution, whether written or unwritten. [1] while the monarch may hold formal reserve powers and government may officially takes place in the monarch"s name, they do not set public policy or choose political leaders.