Chapter 14: PARLIAMENT ;)

cabinet

Where the state’s executive power is held within, managed by a cabinet of somen and men who are selected by the parliament to conduct the state’s affairs. Each minister is responsible for the administration of some part of the government services, such as health or defense. The cabinet leads the parliament , proposing legislation, conducting the country’s foreign policy, and so on.

Coalition

A tactical combination of varied groups, constructed so that the groups will in combination be large enough to command power that they can share among themselves

Commitees (of parliament)

Take care of the bill submitted to parliament. the members of the committee are not people who regularly work together, butt have been put together to consider the bill. They also commonly dont have experience in the particular area of policy. They are meant to propose changes to the cabinet, but dont have the full right to transform

Consensus parliamentarism

Parliamentary government in which the adversarial relationship between the cabinet and the opposition parties is reduced through a variety of power-sharing devices, such as allowing control of committees to parties proportionally to their strength, whether or not they are apart of the cabinet coalition.

Constitutional monarch

a monarch who carries out ceremonial functions but has little to no real political power

delegate model of representation

A model of representation in which representatives regard themselves as speaking for their constituents and cast each vote as they think constituents would wish it to be cast

Head of government

Head of the cabinet. “prime minister, premier, chancellor”

Head of state

Every parliamentary system has a seperate , almost purely symbolic figure

Minority Cabinet

A coalition holding less than 50 percent of the votes in parliament

Parliamentary government

Does not involve the separation of powers or “checks and balances” the only election is for a parliament, and the parliament then designates a cabinet to carry out the executive functions of the state. The cabinet works intimately with the parliament, and can be ousted at any time by the majority of the parliament

Presidential government

The executive and legislature are selected in seperate elections. There is the separation of powers

Question time (lol)

Various cabinet members appear regularly to answer questions from other MP’s about the way they are running the ministry. Answers spark lively debates lol

Trustee Model representation

assumes that representatives learn more about an issue than any of their constituents could possibly knoww and have been chosen on the basis of their superior judgement.