POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cabinet (Government), Parliamentary System, Divided Government
6 Feb 2018
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Institutions: humanly devised constraints that shape and guide behaviour. Examples: term limits, the supreme court, house of. Very common form of government in western europe. Adopted federal system from the closeness to us. Core element - executive and legislature are fused. Survival and origin of each branch are not separate. One particular election fills parliament, then cabinet (the executive) is selected from parliament - head of the cabinet is the. Majority rule: one party has majority in parliament see pic. The pm, in relation to the canadian political systems, is more powerful than the us president is in relation to the us system. Implications: divided government is possible, power is fragmented. Presidential systems have better identifiability ie. the link between voting and government formation is more transparent. Parliamentary system: when there is no majority, government formation is a result of bargains between parties, not just voting.
