CAS PO 151 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Democracy, Weimar Republic, Quo Status Quo Album
12 Oct 2018
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Bicameral- two champers, typically of different size and with different responsibilities: most common form of government. In a democracy, executives are held accountable for their actions. Horizontal accountability: checks and balances exercised by other branches of government. Vertical accountability: limits on executive authority by citizens and civil society: voting, public opinion, mass media. Separation of powers: executive and legislature elected separately, serve fixed terms, cabinet members need not be legislators. Can slow legislative process: president may have legislative minority, party-line votes not assured even with majority, bills subject to extensive debate/amendments. Parliamentarism: united kingdom, india, germany, and japan. The government is by party or coalition more than by a single individual. There"s a tighter connection between the legislature and the executive. In some cases, there"s a different head of state such as the queen of england or a president that is. Executive is the prime minister or the chancellor (germany). elected, but mostly ceremonial.
