POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Individual Ministerial Responsibility, Westminster System, Responsible Government

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2101
• Professor: Luc Turgeon

Document Summary

Key terms: westminster model, responsible government, the crown, ministerial responsibility. Reminder: difference between parliamentary and presidential systems: parliamentary system, a system of governing in which there is a close interrelationship between the political executive (prime minister and cabinet) and parliament (the legislative or law-making body). The executive is generally composed of members of the. House of commons (the elected body) and must maintain the support of the. The president is both the head of government and the head of state. o o. Members of congress are not also members of the senate. The model of government developed in britain in which the political executive is given extensive power to provide effective leadership (dyck) A parliamentary system in which administrative and legislative responsibility are fused. The political executive (the cabinet) sits in, and typically leads the majority party in the house of commons (stein) Because of the fact that it tends to be dominated by majority governments.