Exectutive Flashcards
Basic functions of legislature, executive, judiciary (in terms of laws)
Legislature makes laws
Executive executes laws
Judiciary interprets laws
How is the executive elected in the Westminister system
Westminister executive (PM and cabinet) drawn from and directly responsible to an elected legislature/ parliament
Cf. El prez directly voted for
What are ministers responsible for
Government policy programs. Thus a cabinet is a committee of those responsible for government policy programs
Differences between presidential and parliamentary systems
Prez directly elected
Parliamentary systems have a separate head of state
Greater separation of power in presidential system (there are no leadership spills)
Fixed terms in office for el prez
Name two countries with a semi-presidential system
France
Russia
Places / regions that have presidential system other than US
Most of Latin America
Burma
Indonesia
Philippines
What countries other than most of the EU, Oz and Nz have a parliamentary system
Canada
India and Pakistan
What are presidential and parlimentary cabinets like?
Presidential: more marginal and individualistic
Parliamentary: more central and unified
