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What is a democracy? Week 2 key notes |
- An elected government where the citizens have a voice to choose elected representatives. - Role of the MMP government in NZ. - State, Judiciary, Executive and Legislature. - A democracy should give citizens opportunities to participate in the decision making. |
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What makes NZ a democracy? Week 2 key notes |
- NZ citizens have ultimate power over the way we are governed. - No supreme laws. -the Head of State (the Governor-General representing the Queen), the Legislature (Parliament), the Executive (Cabinet) and the Judiciary (judges and courts). - Cabinet is the centraldecision-making body to which all major political issues are referred and fromwhich all government policy emanates. |
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What does the section of the judiciary entail? Week 2 key notes |
- Appointed by the GG. - Judges seen as unbiased and independent. - Ruleof law assumes equality for all citizens |
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What does the section of the legislature entail? Week 2 key notes |
- Parliament, the elected government + opposition members elected to parliament. |
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What does the section of the executive entail? Week 2 key notes |
- Executive Council - GG, PM, Ministers of the Crown (Portfolio holders). - Local bodies, State owned enterprises and the Ombudsman form part of the Executive. |
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What does the section of state entail? Week 2 key notes |
- Queen Elizabeth II is NZ’s Head of State. Represented in New Zealand by theGovernor-General. The Governor General ispart of all 3 estates of the polity. - The Governor General could refuse a Prime Minister’s request for a dissolution ofParliament for an election. - NZ’s constitution is based on law, court decisions and traditional conventions ofbehaviour from UK and NZ. |
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Why is democracy under threat? Own knowledge |
- A key note of democracy is the citizens right to access official information. e.g. We have no idea what the TPPA is yet it has been signed. - Media watchdog= Outsourcing Pacific Islander and Maori production. - GCSB = Spying. |
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What does McNamara’s research and Architecture ofOrganisational Listening Theory (2015) offer? McNamara and Week 6 key notes |
- Social organisation is engaged with stakeholders and communities. - Engagement is essential. - Engagement requires two way systems. - Organisational listening is work and needs time/resources. - Requires the architecture of listening. - Engage through listening, dialogue, decentralise, comms to ambassadors. - Voice is widely identified as fundamental to democracy and socialequity, constitutionalized and legislated in many countries as a right to‘freedom of speech’ and advocated in calls to ‘speak up’, ‘have your say’ and‘tell us what you think’. - Be open and receptive. |
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How did democracy evolve? McNair |
- Out of the bourgeoisie critique in early modern Europe in 1789. - Slogan from French revolution 'Liberty, equality and fraternity'. - Citizenship rights was a necessary stage of the evolving democracy. - Formally requesting the consent from all citizens. - Elected political leaders had a right to demand respect from those who did not vote for them. - Citizens right to choose. |
