Evaluate The Effectiveness Of A Semi-Presidential System

Industrialized democratic states have forged from colonial systems and traditional monarchies that now have evolved into a new system to fit the present majority states. Across European states, there are constitutional accepted guidelines approved by the Legislative to permit the Executive to exercise some form of powers in regards to the policy process. Modern democratic states now run under a parliamentary or presidential system in which governing vary in the division of power and in the way policies are process and implemented. Although traditional long standing parliamentary systems like Great Britain have proven to have an exceptional executive-legislative relation one in which is for the betterment of their state, there are other modern democracies like France, who is a semi-presidential state that confer their own interrelations, while managing to impact their state with the same magnitude as a parliamentary state. By examining closely of the relationships of these two systems, one can see the difference of impact and efficiency in policy making when voting powers are tied to different positions. In a …show more content…
One cannot say which is more triumphant than the other, however it is evident that Great Britain’s encouragement to receive any criticism towards its government creates an open environment in which in theory should not create any distrust between state and citizen and therefore can make the process of legislation to produce quickly with ease. France is still making strides to devolve more power to the lower levels, but it seems now that the role of the Prime Minister is to balance and maintain the assurance of both the executive and