...1977, Chapter 21. Cf Wilson, 1976. 48 See Young, 1989, Chapter 19. The role and functions of Cabinet49 A Cabinet is a combining committee - a hyphen which...the state to the executive part of the state. In its origins, it belongs to the one and in its functions, it belongs to the other.51^ The Cabinet represents...

...'fictional'. Only once an administration had been constructed, did the balances shift and then the Cabinet - 'a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the...part of the state to the executive part of the state' — became the key to government.12 Bagehot's work has often been regarded as a prescriptive rather...

...cabinet government into prime ministerial government. Under this system the hyphen which joins, the buckle which fastens the legislative part of the state to the executive part becomes one single man'.12 However, the theory has antecedents that go back to the beginnings of the...

...Wilson, created for the premiership what Walter Bagehot would later attribute to cabinet- 'a position of a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the Legislative part of the Executive to the Executive part of the State.'22 Walpole resigned office under pressure from the House,...

...complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers .... The connecting link is the Cabinet ... a combining committee - a hyphen which joins, a buckle...the State to the executive part of the State. In its origins it belongs to one, in its function it belongs to the other. (Bagehot, 1963: 65-68) One further...

...reason was simple. The Cabinet had emerged as the most powerful institution in modern government; the 'hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state'.98 According to Bagehot, the 'most curious point about the Cabinet is that so very little is...

...im Verhältnis einer „nearly complete fusion" befinden. Das Kabinett sei - wiederum nach Bagehot - „a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative pari of the state to the executive pari of the state" (zit. nach: Loewenstein 1: 85). Loewenstein fugt...

...Wilson, created for the premiership what Walter Bagehot would later attribute to cabinet - 'a position of a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens the Legislative part of the Executive to the Executive part of the State.'35 Walpole resigned office under pressure from the House,...