POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Limited Government, Fairfax New Zealand, Responsible Government
4 Dec 2016
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P define and limit power within the constitution, checks and balances, conventions of behavior and an equitable legal system. L the government has a mandate/authority to rule, electoral system must allow for popular, free and frequent elections. J representative government, constitutionalism, restrains on power, equal treatment and accorded with dignity and respect. F role of government in economic matters, free-market or regulation and intervention. The constitution is a national matrix which outlines: linz. According to j. linz, presidentialism is inherently problematic because it operates according to the rule of winner takes all . The concept of winner takes all is an arrangement that tends to make democratic politics a zero- sum game. The president has a dual-legitimacy, on one hand he is ambiguous as he is both the head of state and the representative of the entire nation, while on the other hand he stands for a clear partisan political option.
