Profession of Government Minister in Western Europe
Profession of Government Minister in Western Europe

Author: Jean Blondel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1991-06-18

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1349113956

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Despite the apparent political similarities in Western Europe, the models of cabinet government employed by different nations vary. In exploring the ministerial profession, this text reveals the political traditions and the different needs and expectations of citizen and politician alike.

Coalitions in Parliamentary Government
Coalitions in Parliamentary Government

Author: L. Dodd

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-03-08

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1400868076

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For eighty years, students of parliamentary democracy have argued that durable cabinets require majority party government. Lawrence Dodd challenges this widely held belief and offers in its place a revisionist interpretation based on contemporary game theory. He argues for a fundamental alteration in existing conceptions of the relationship between party systems and parliamentary government. The author notes that cabinet durability depends on the coalitional status of the party or parties that form the cabinet. This status is created by the fractionalization, instability, and polarization that characterize the parliamentary party system. Cabinets of minimum winning status are likely to endure; as they depart from minimum winning status, their durability should decrease. Hypotheses derived from the author's theory arc examined against the experience of seventeen Western nations from 1918 to 1974. Making extensive use of quantitative analysis, the author compares behavioral patterns in multiparty and majority party parliaments, contrasts interwar and postwar parliaments, and examines the consistency of key behavioral patterns according to country. He concludes that a key to durable government is the minimum winning status of the cabinet, which may be attained in multiparty or majority party parliaments. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Comparing Cabinets
Comparing Cabinets

Author: Patrick Weller

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-09-16

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0192583514

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Why is cabinet government so resilient? Despite many obituaries, why does it continue to be the vehicle for governing across most parliamentary systems? Comparing Cabinets answers these questions by examining the structure and performance of cabinet government in five democracies: the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Australia. The book is organised around the dilemmas that cabinet governments must solve: how to develop the formal rules and practices that can bring predictability and consistency to decision making; how to balance good policy with good politics; how to ensure cohesion between the factions and parties that constitute the cabinet while allowing levels of self-interest to be advanced; how leaders can balance persuasion and command; and how to maintain support through accountability at the same time as being able to make unpopular decisions. All these dilemmas are continuing challenges to cabinet government, never solvable, and constantly reappearing in different forms. Comparing distinct parliamentary systems reveals how traditions, beliefs, and practices shape the answers. There is no single definition of cabinet government, but rather arenas and shared practices that provide some cohesion. Such a comparative approach allows greater insight into the process of cabinet government that cannot be achieved in the study of any single political system, and an understanding of the pressures on each system by appreciating the options that are elsewhere accepted as common beliefs.

Cabinet Form of Government
Cabinet Form of Government

Author: Dormin J. Ettrude

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781330315248

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Excerpt from Cabinet Form of Government, Vol. 1 The relation of the executive and legislative, and, more remotely, the judicial, functions of government to one another has always been one of the problems of democratic government, a problem that increases in importance with the increasing age and complexity of governmental institutions. To understand the questions involved it is necessary to distinguish between the two main forms of democratic and representative government. One, the parliamentary system, had its origin in England and is in force in England, Canada. South Africa, Australia, France and certain other European countries. The presidential system is found in the United States, and other American countries. In the parliamentary system, to take its best and most historic example, that of England, the executive and legislative functions are combined and the courts exercise their powers under this combined executive-legislative unit. The Cabinet is the supreme ruling power. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A System of Governance
A System of Governance

Author: Naunihal Singh

Publisher: Anmol Publications PVT. LTD.

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9788174889478

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The Current Great Interest In The Question Of Parliamentarism Versus Presidentialism Coincides, Not Surprisingly, With The Wave Of Democratization And The Writing Of New Democratic Constitutions That Has Swept The World Since The Mid-1970S, Beginning In Southern Europe And Spreading To Latin America, East Asia, Eastern Europe, The Soviet Union And South Africa.The Book Is A Comparative Study Of Parliamentary System And The Presidential System. The Necessity Of Maintaining And Equilibrium Between The Presidency And Democracy; Also Between Parliamentarism And Democracy; Also Between Parliamentarism And Democracy Is A Central Theme Of This Book.The Book Is Primarily A Study In American And British Public Law. The Approach Is Partly Historical; Partly Analytical And Critical. For The Presidency Unfolds A Daily Drama Of The Reciprocal Interplay Of Human Character And Legal Concept That No Other Office On Earth Can Quite Emulate.Besides, The Book Also Treats The Intermediate Democratic Forms Such As French-Style Semi-Presidential Model. It Was Also Adopted In Portugal And Sri Lanka And Has Been Also Proposed In Several Latin American Countries, And Certain Political Experts And Politicians Recommend It For India. And, Therefore, Receives The Greatest Attention. The Main Subject Of The Debate Has Been The Respective Advantages And Disadvantages Of Parliamentary And Presidential Government. The Second Important Subject Is The Origins And Causes Of These Alternative Forms Of Government. And, Therefore, Receives The Greatest Attention. The Main Subject Of The Debate Has Been The Respective Advantages And Disadvantages Of Parliamentary And Presidential Government. The Second Important Subject Is The Origins And Causes Of These Alternative Forms Of Government. And The Third Question Which Logically Be The First Question Concerns The Exact Definition Of Parliamentary And Presidential Government As Well As The Definitions Of Forms Of Government That Appear To Be Intermediate Between Parliamentarism And Presidentialism. Can These Various Systems Of Governance Be Clearly And Unambiguously Distinguished From One Another?This Book Will Prove Useful To The Students Of Political Science, Politicians, Statesmen, Political Scientists And Law-Makers As Well As The General Reader, Who Is In Need Of A Short Exposition Of The Widely Differing Constitutional Arrangements For Different Countries Of The World.