Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary GovernmentMichael Laver, Kenneth A. Shepsle CUP Archive, 1994 M09 30 - 318 páginas One of the key constitutional features of a parliamentary democracy is that the political executive, or cabinet, derives its mandate from - and is politically responsible to - the legislature. What makes a parliamentary democracy democratic is that, once a legislative election has been held, the new legislature has the power to dismiss the incumbent executive and replace it with a new one. Moreover, it sits essentially as a court, passing continual judgement on the record of the executive, and continuous sentence on its future prospects. That is how citizens, indirectly, choose and control their government. But the relationship between legislature and executive is not one-sided. The executive typically has the authority to recommend dissolution of parliament and is usually drawn from the parliament. Executive personnel, therefore, have intimate familiarity with parliamentary practices; and for their part, parliamentary personnel aspire to executive appointments. Surprisingly little is known about the constitutional relationship between legislature and executive in parliamentary regimes; the present volume seeks to remedy this. |
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Models of government and the Austrian cabinet | 15 |
The political role of Norwegian cabinet ministers | 35 |
ministers and cabinet policy Rudy B | 56 |
The political role of cabinet minsters in Ireland | 73 |
ministerial autonomy constitutional collectivism | 88 |
the | 106 |
The role of cabinet ministers in the French Fourth | 125 |
The political autonomy of cabinet ministers in the French | 139 |
Cabinet ministers and parliamentary government in | 169 |
The political role of cabinet ministers in Italy | 187 |
Ministerial autonomy in Britain Anthony King | 203 |
Collective cabinet decision making in New Zealand | 226 |
The interpersonal dynamics of decision making in | 251 |
Cabinet decision making in the Hellenic Republic 1974 | 270 |
CONCLUSION | 280 |
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