CPO-2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Indirect Election, Parliamentary System, William Riker
16 Apr 2016
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Government: a prime minister and a cabinet. Prime minister: the chief poliical execuive and head of the government in democracy (the president in u. s) Cabinet is composed of ministers and in charge of administraive divisions. Government is depend on the conidence of a majority of members of parliamentarians. Lijphart on two diferent kinds of parliamentary models. Westminster (great britain and former briish colonies: canada, india, south africa, these are majoritarian) and consensus. Lijphart states that the main diference between majoritarian and consensus model can be viewed in the formaion of government coaliions. Six main theories: minimal winning, minimum size, bargaining proposiion, minimal range, minimal connected winning, policy viable, a: 8 b: 21 c: 26 d:12 d:33, how we might expect coaliions will for in real life. None: only when a single party wins a majority of seats does the mwc theory give a predicion about who will form the government, if b had 51 votes already.
