Parliamentary procedure

Is parliamentarism more democratic than presidentialism? Democratic governments can be organized mainly in three different ways: Parliamentarism, presidentialism and semi-presidentialism. We will focus on the differences between parliamentary and presidential systems, explaining their main characteristics and claiming that parliamentarism is more democratic because of the executive constraints that it has. One of the defining feature of presidentialism is the lack of “legislative responsibility”…

New Zealanders are affected on a daily basis by the decisions the government makes. These decisions are made through a particular protocol that occurs within our parliamentary system (New Zealand Parliament 2014). This parliamentary system is embodied in constitutional law, and as a formal legal structure, it displays information in regards to the relationship between the three main branches of government. These three main branches are the judiciary (applies, sometimes makes law), the executive…

voters may become frustrated with their party’s constant movement on issue positions, and decide not to vote in elections. If enough voters feel this way, there can be an overall decrease in voter turnout. Nevertheless, Israel’s political rules and procedures are everchanging, and so perhaps we will eventually see reforms that resolve the negative implications of…

The Presidential and Parliamentary systems are used around the world in order to control the government and keep the peace and safety of the country. Each system handles the operation of the executive system in different ways as they divide power between different people. Despite the major differences between branches they both manage to provide for their countries and effectively run the government. While both of these systems are successful, they are not without their faults. Each system has…

Scandinavia is a nation of around 27 million people who come from many cultures (Harrison). Primarily, they are a liberal democracy which places its values in being a welfare state. The state is currently recovering from a war with a country that was previously their largest trading partner, Germany. Because they are recovering from this war their economic priorities have shifted to helping take care of citizens affected by the war in Denmark as well as reparations to the land itself…

countries, the central difference that exists across their democratic institutions is the performance of the Christian Democrats. Members of the CDU in Luxembourg have significantly outperformed those in Sweden. During the period from 1994 to 2010 in parliamentary elections, the Christian Democrats in Sweden average 7.65% of the vote while that same party in Luxembourg averaged 33.64%. That is a difference of 25.99%, which is a little more than every one in four people. So the question arises,…

region. Many years ago, Bostonistan was a democracy, but it suffered a coup after military leaders got fed up with legislative gridlock that had paralyzed the political system. Do you think your own country’s system of government (presidential, parliamentary, or semi-presidential), electoral system (single member districts, proportional representation, or mixed), and federal versus unitary status would work…

There are many similarities between colonial government and government today. For instance, the bicameral branch of the government today (Congress or legislative branch) is like the Parliament which was the law making also made up of two other branches of government. Within the Congress there are two houses called the House of Representatives and the Senate. The House of Representatives is similar to the House of Burgesses because they are both made up of representatives that agree if a law…

government is weak or absent, leaving democracies to fail in their mission, to vest the power to the people. In this paper, I will analysis and compare the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches of government in the British parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarchy and Russia’s semi-presidential republic. In the British democracy, the legislature has a powerful role in the government, including checks on the executive in contrary in Russia the Duma is weak…

The “Triple E Senate” model will be proposed as a viable tool for Senate reform, stressing the importance of an elective, effective, and equal Senate. The history of the Senate will first be analysed to demonstrate the superfluous nature of the chamber in a twentieth-century democracy. The following paragraph will then examine the Senator appointment process, arguing in the defence of an elected senate. Following that, the effectiveness of the Senate will be criticized proving a lack of…