Have Uk Prime Ministers Become More Presidential in Recent Years?

Another reason why the House of Commons is more effective in checking government power is Prime ministers Question Time, which is a weekly slot where MPs can ask one notified question of the Prime Minister and one unscripted supplementary question. These are also usually dominated by the PM and the leader of the opposition who can ask four or five supplementary questions. Question Time also extends to other ministers, forcing them to answer oral questions from MPs. On occasion Prime Minister question time can expose a PM or seem to sum up the political weather, for example Tony Blair said to John Major “You’re weak, weak, weak”. Furthermore, PM questions are very high profile due to the high amount coverage via the media and the one occasion in the week where much of the population will form a judgement on the two main party leaders. Also, the vast majority of the government can only be questioned in the House of Commons.

However the government is held to account by the British public in general elections because the First Past The Post (FPTP) electoral system favours the two party

This book is a bold work by George C. Edwards in which he shares his views of the political system in the US and how it has evolved over time. He has touched almost every president since the 1930s and brought to light some interesting details about how presidents have followed patterns and used their own style of actions to meet their unique objectives. The book describes in detail the attitudes of presidents and reflects his views on presidency. For instance, he has expressed three premises about presidential leadership: public support is used as a social resource by president, presidents must take interest in the problems of the people in order to actually garner support rather than just delivering speeches, and the public can be mobilized successfully by permanent campaigns.

Another source of presidential power that stems from the Constitution is the deceptively simple fact that the American president is both head of state and head of government (Romance, July 27). Unlike in several other democracies, such as in Great Britain where these two functions are split between the monarch and a prime minister, an American president has the ability to both symbolically represent the and to lead the nation (July 27). Even this is both a blessing and a curse because it forces a president to constantly live both roles and know exactly when to stress the appropriate one over the other (July 27).

Research Question: How do powers of an American president differ from a British prime minister, including limitations and how does that contribute to their perceived effectiveness as a leader?

The dispersion of power in the UK varies greatly, each country having a different seat on the level-pegging of power over one another - in particular, policy areas, due to the various referendums, including ones already mentioned. This is called an asymmetrical devolution system.

In the admittedly short life time of the Presidential branch its occupants have taken massive strides in empowering and strengthening their office. At times a case could be made that the executive has aspired to too much; threating essential American political values, such is the case of President Franklin Roosevelt who secured a third term of office ignoring precedent and tradition. However, evidence would suggest that for any significant step a president takes towards increasing their power; often results in an equal and opposite reaction. That is not to say that our presidents are weak, in actuality we see that our presidents have significantly increased their power to wage war

In this paper we will compare the formal and informal powers if the President and we will explore how and why the Presidential powers have increased over time. The history of the Presidency is an account of aggrandizement; one envisions, today, a President with far reaching power, however, when looking at the Constitution alone we find a President with significant limits. Is the President of the United States the most powerful person in the world or merely a helpless giant?

The centrepiece of Labour 's programme of constitutional reform was undoubtedly devolution. This was achieved with remarkably few problems. There now seems no likelihood that the new arrangements could be reversed, even by a Conservative administration. The election on 6 May 1999 of a Parliament in Scotland, with extensive powers of primary legislation as well as tax-raising, and an Assembly in Wales, with powers of secondary legislation only, will have a profound impact on governance within the UK. In

Not every member of the public will be interested in politics or in fact have a clear understanding of the political system in Britain and this could affect the voter’s outcome. For example, an individual might not understand the significance of their vote to a political question, and that it can have long term effects that they may not take into consideration whilst voting. Furthering this point, the public may be easily influenced by campaigns of newspapers, notable tabloids, or by wealthy vested interests who can afford to spend large amounts of money on a campaign. This suggests that referendums are not always a true representation of what the public wants an outcome to be.

“Parliamentary sovereignty is no longer, if it ever was, absolute” (Lord Hope). Discuss with reference to at least three challenges to the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. Parliamentary sovereignty is the concept that Parliament has the power to repeal, amend or create any law it wishes and therefore no body in the UK can challenge its legal validity. There are many people who would argue that this is a key principle to the UK Constitution, on the other hand, there are those who strongly believe that this idea is one of the past, and that the idea of the UK Parliament being sovereign is false. One of these people is Lord Hope, who said “Parliamentary sovereignty is no longer, if it ever was, absolute”. During the last 50 years there have been a variety of developments that have proved to be a challenge for the legitimacy of parliamentary sovereignty, and the ones which will be examined in this essay are: the devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament; The United Kingdom’s entry into the European Union in 1973; and finally the power of judicial review. Starting with the devolution of powers, these challenges will all be evaluated when discussing whether or not the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty applies to the United Kingdom. Westminster’s sovereignty has been gradually diminishing over time as varying amounts of power have been devolved to Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. In this essay, the devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament will be

Starting as the CEO at Litosphere Enterprises, Richard Plantagenet somehow worked his way to the top, in the most astonishing rise to power seen in British political history. Politicians dropped out of the election left, right and centre, leaving Richard as virtually the only competent candidate for Prime Minister. In the UK, millions are left astounded and confused, curious and worried about what is to come. We all are left asking: how did Richard Plantagenet do it?

I am William Pitt and I am the current Prime Minister. I come from a family of politicians. My mother, Hester Grenville was the sister of a prior Prime Minister, and my father William Pitt was Prime Minister himself (Aspinall). I was a very sickly child, but intelligent, and at a young age I began to take oratory classes in preparation for my future as a politician. I was initially homeschooled due to my delicate health, but by age fourteen I was attending Cambridge, and I received my MA in 1776. Growing up, I had a strong interest in politics and spent much time observing debates and procedures in Parliament (William Pitt the Younger). By the time I was appointed a Member of Parliament for Appleby in 1781, and then Prime Minister in 1783,

Margaret Thatcher is a household name in England for many reasons. The chief reason is because she became the first woman to be elected as Prime Minister of England. She was elected as Prime Minister in 1979-1990.. Until that time, although England was led by queens, the prime minister position in England was only held by men. Margaret changed all of that and won by a landslide. In this essay we will discuss 1) brief history of the life of Margaret Thatcher and 2)the concept called Thatcherism named after her 3) and the role that Thatcherism played in reshaping the economic structure of England.

The aim of the research project is to develop a critical understanding of a range of research skills, research methods and ethical considerations specifically relevant to conducting independent research and cultivating a managed approach to such. The report will culminate in an overall reflection on the outcomes of the research conducted. The reports purpose is to answer; How does Britain’s political standing today differ from what it was at the period height of the British Empire, and how does its contemporary strength and influence affect its contemporary political role in world matters? The report will aim to answer the question in two ways: The first being how contemporary Britain differs politically from the time of the British Empire. The second, will examine contemporary Britain’s political role and whether it has changed in overall strength and influence. The report itself will be split into four sections outlining different aspects of the research project. The first section will outline a written version of the critical literature review which was conducted in early February in presentation format, and will be written up in chronological order of thematic. The second, will contain a methodology section aimed at outlining the justification and depiction of all methodology used specifically towards primary research. The third, will contain a section dedicated to