Question Plans Flashcards

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Constitution codified

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A: Flexibility-can respond to wider social pressure and crises
C: To flexible, can’t prevent ill thought out rapid change
A: USA not better as ambiguity and reinterpretation whereas UK clear statue law, increasing unofficial codified
C: These can be changes easily, not fundamental, citizens can’t learn rights easily. Whereas in US knowledge and pride
A: This is pragmatic way, can revolve, moreover is not consensus mechanism, or mandate

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PM dominance over cabinet

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He has much potential power over policy and decision making

  1. Patronage and cabinet makeup

Helps control policy, deprive power of enemies, establish authority

Power: Patronage, appointments, firing, promotions, reshuffle, judge of CMR and can change ministerial code, dissenters held back by CME

Limitations: IMR not enforceable, big beasts, factions, allies, rivals, experience diversity

  1. Institutions/structures/agenda

Power: Calling and chairing cabinet meetings, controlling the agenda and summing up its conclusions, informal, overall shape and structure of gov - number and functions of departments.

Establish cabinet committees, bi laterals and sofa govs. And can bypass cabinet with this. Ministers often won’t go outside remit.

Increase in personnel supporting PM- PM Office, which now includes No 10 policy unit, press office and cabinet office

Limitations: Requires cabinet support on major/controversial issues.
No formally structured PM department , other departments out shadow size of PM office

  1. Media, personal mandate, PMQs

This affects all the other powers

Power: Media, Embodiment of party, personal mandate, PMQs

Limitations: can swing the other way and give cabinet more power and weaken PMs position

Bad things blamed on them, can hard to deflect, anon civil service

Personality, weakness, electoral asset, majority, circumstances, party scandals

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IMR and CMR importance

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