POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Entrust, Visible Minority, Divided Government
21 Nov 2017
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Want stable democracy ? get the institution right ! Institutions: humanly devised constraints that shape and guide behavior. Who plays the game , how they play the game, and consequently , who wins and who loses. Core element: the executive and legislature are fused. Survival and origin of each branch are not separate . One popular election fills government(we select members of parliament), then cabinet (the executive) is selected from parliament. People only vote trudeau to be the leader of the liberal party. Ca(cid:271)i(cid:374)et (cid:373)ust (cid:862)(cid:373)ai(cid:374)tai(cid:374) the (cid:272)o(cid:374)fide(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) of pa(cid:396)lia(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:894)sustai(cid:374) the suppo(cid:396)t of a majority of mps) or resign. Terms of office are not fixed , cabinet can dissolve parliament and call new elections when it sees fit. Thus the executive can dissolve the legislature and the legislature can axe the executive ! Majority rule: one party has a majority in parliament, can form a cabinet and rule on its own.
