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Mind Map by Marcus Danvers, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Marcus Danvers
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(10) What is Parliamentary Government
- A parliamentary system of government is one which
government governs in and through Parliament.
- Criticism of the parliamentary system
- The majority of MPs in the House of Commons
came to see their role not as criticizing the
government but as defenting government
- This is why parliamentary government is
often associated with problems of
executive dominance
- The majority of MPs in the House of Commons
came to see their role not as criticizing the
government but as defenting government
- Parliamentary
Government in the
UK
- Parliamentary elections based
on the strength of party
representation at Commons
- Personnel of government drawn
from Parliament (leaders of the
largest party in the Commons)
- Government is RESPONSIBLE to Parliament –
rests on the confidence of the Commons and can
be removed by defeat of ‘vote of no confidence’
- Government can ‘dissolve’ Parliament – electoral
terms are flexible within a 5 year limit (now
restricted by fixed-term Parliaments)
- Government based on collective
‘face’ – no Presidency, based on
principle of cabinet government
- The Prime Minister, as a Parliamentary
‘officer’, is head of government but NOT
the head of state (very much separate).
- Parliamentary elections based
on the strength of party
representation at Commons
- Parliamentary Government,
separation of powers
comparison
- parliamentary Governement
- [Parliament] -} Personnel -} [Government]
{- Responsibility
- [Parliament] -} Personnel -} [Government]
{- Responsibility
- separation of powers
- [Executive] {-} [Judiciary]
{-} [Legislature] {-}
- Checks and Balances
- Checks and Balances
- [Executive] {-} [Judiciary]
{-} [Legislature] {-}
- parliamentary Governement
- Theories of parliamentary power
- The Westminster model
- This is the classic view of parliament as
the lynch pin of the UK system of
government. It implies that parliament
deliver both representative government
and responsible government. In this view,
parliament has significant policy influence
- Parliament =
representative
government +
responsible government
Parliament = significant
policy influence
- This is the classic view of parliament as
the lynch pin of the UK system of
government. It implies that parliament
deliver both representative government
and responsible government. In this view,
parliament has significant policy influence
- The white hall Model
- This model suggest that political and
constitutional power has shifted firmly from
parliament to the executive. Parliament is
executively - dominated, and acts as little more
than a 'rubber stamp' for government policy
- Executive = political + constitutional power
Parliament = rubber stamp (no meaningful
policy influence)
- This model suggest that political and
constitutional power has shifted firmly from
parliament to the executive. Parliament is
executively - dominated, and acts as little more
than a 'rubber stamp' for government policy
- The transformative model
- It accept that parliament is no longer a
policy-making body, but neither is its
simple irrelevant. In the current view,
parliament a transform policy but only
by reacting to executive initiative
- Parliament = no longer policy making body
Parliament ≠ irrelevant
- Parliament = transform policy
(reacting to executive initiatives)
- It accept that parliament is no longer a
policy-making body, but neither is its
simple irrelevant. In the current view,
parliament a transform policy but only
by reacting to executive initiative
- The Westminster model
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