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- Explanation/Definition of Parliamentary systems--four key features
- Parliament only elected body in state
- Executive power of state lodged in cabinet
- Cabinet retains executive power only if it has "confidence" of parliament
- Leader of cabinet usually has right to have parliament disbanded
- Head of state
- Cabinet and Cabinet Control
- What do parliaments do?
- Forum for public debate of bills
- Place where bills are subject to detailed scrutiny
- Keeps critical eye on the cabinet and how it is administering policy
- Provide a pool of trained people for service in the executive
- Box: Delegate vs. Trustee
- Parliamentary Committees
- Advantages
- Power unified--government can respond directly to changed circumstances
- Lines of responsibility for policy making clear
- Disadvantages
- Few protections for a minority
- May produce unstable government
- "Consensus" parliamentarism
- More complex than it sounds
- Parliaments in autocratic systems
- How many states that aren't parliamentary democracies have parliamentary bodies
- China's National People's Congress
- Examples:
- Parliamentary Government in India
- Parliamentary Government in Germany
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