PPAS 2200- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 20 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 2200
• Professor: Dr.Sirvan Karimi

Document Summary

Inherited from british a: responsible government > government is responsible to people through the elected officials. To hold people accountable, government, gov. must resign if they got no votes of confidence from cabinet: based on convention, based on rules that are binding. Practice kind of behaviour that has been practice over time and has been accepted: collective responsibility, cabinet responsibility > as a whole responsible, if gov. loses cabinet vote has to resign. Each minister has a particular department (finance, defense) > top at department. If wrong doing is v serious, then they need to resign by convention, if they don"t resign, they answer to parliament and answer to government and do right from their wrong doing. The division of power and responsibility, between two autonomous powers. Unless there is an emergency, such as war, then the federal government must not interfere with the provinces.