POSC 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: War Reparations, Parliamentary System, Hyperinflation
4 Dec 2017
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Focus on their past, strict in not repeating it. State that sponsors the economy and makes sure. German state; corporate state=confusing, define what it is. Politicians: become politicians at the state level first. Political system: chancellor prime minister: more power than the british prime minister less than french president. Bundestag lower house- interests of the people of the whole. Bundesrat upper house representative of the state 16 different lander (states). Block legislation and help mold it like in the state power. Half of the spots in the bundestag are allocated to single member district voting. Parliamentary system, the chancellor is subject to a vote of no-confidence. Everything has been done to keep the state free of chaos. Constructive vote of no confidence: chancellor can be voted out. Parliament is unhappy with merkel, want to remove merkel. The role of the legislature and the executive is fused. The role of the executive and the legislative branch.
