Party Government Characteristics

The political system of America is very different from other developed and developing democracies. Most notable is the increased power bestowed on the upper house of the parliament, the extensive power held by the Supreme Court and the dominance demonstrated by only two major parties. In the United States, third parties have the least influence on the world’s most developed democracy’s political structure. In this democracy, people are under the US Constitution of the governmental system as well as state government and other units of local government. Local government entails counties, districts and municipalities. The evolution of the American political party system has come a long way; with Hamilton and Jefferson being regarded as the founder fathers of the modern party system. These were heads of the Federalist and Anti-Federalist groups in the 18th century of American politics. Ever since, the country has maintained a party system that has two main parties that are relatively stable. These are Democrats and Republicans and have remained in contest for election every time since the 1860 presidential elections. Initially, the Republican Party was the dominant party but the Democrats later gained dominance. However, the two parties became closely competitive and neither of them has been notably dominant since the 1970s (O'Connor & Sabato, n.d).

Conventional wisdom has assumed that the US government functions more effectively when one party controls both the presidency and the congress, yet divided governments are increasingly the norm. The author looks at this issue and concludes that control by one party has made little difference.

As the most widely adopted form of democratic government there are many strengths associated with a parliamentary government. The parliamentary system is often praised for the fast and efficient way in which it is able to pass legislation. The reason this is possible is because unlike a presidential system the legislative and executive power in a parliamentary system are merged together. Due to this fusion of power legislation does not have to undergo a lengthy process and therefore laws can be formulated and put into place much quicker(Bates, 1986: 114-5). Another advantage of a parliamentary system is that the majority of the power is not held by one individual head of state but rather is more evenly divided among a single party or coalition. One of the main benefits of this is that as there is more of a division of power a parliamentary government is less prone to authoritarianism than a presidential system. Juan Linz argues that a presidential system is more dangerous due to the fact that; “Winners and losers are sharply defined for the entire period of the presidential mandate”(Linz, 1990: 56), this sharp line between winners and losers increases tension between these two groups and allows the winner to isolate themselves from other political parties (Linz, 1990: 56). Due to this tension and isolation a presidential system is at a higher risk of turning into an authoritarian regime than a parliamentary system.

The American system has been widely recognized as a model of democracy and effective governing, but critics argue its flaws in policy making. Founders of the United States made a three branch system, in which they later introduced political parties. At times, the system can be viewed as having poor efficiency in legislation and poor accountability. In our government's system, policies are implemented after completion of a long process of incremental decision making, and that has shaped our own political community and parties.

The two-party system is said to promote governmental stability because a single party can win a majority of political offices and, with less bickering between differing and partisan legislators, govern more efficiently. In a multiparty country, on the other hand, the formation of a government depends on the maintenance of a coalition of parties with enough total strength to form a political majority. The weakness of the ties that bind the coalition may threaten the continuance of a cabinet in power. The stability shown by the government of the United States has not been entirely due to its party system, it has been argued, but has been promoted also by the fixed tenure and strong constitutional position of the president, as well as checks and balances built into the constitution to prevent one branch of federal government from becoming too powerful.

Two Party System: A two party system is when in a government, two main political parties dominate the politics. In an election, one party is usually referred to as the majority party, where the other is the minority party.

With governmental shut-downs in Congress making more of an everyday occurrence, and presidential candidates representing a stark contrast of extremist opinions, now more than ever, we need to implore devices by which the discordant ills of this country may be remedied. Cohabitation seems to be the unintentional glue that fashions together democracy. It refers to the division and sharing of powers in a double executive which is composed of two people from two distinct political parties. French political systems had managed to survive a double executive 11 (Roskin 2016)shared by different factions, despite fears that such a combination could bring about grave political consequences. In 1986 when French Socialist President Mitterrand lost control of the National Assembly to the largest conservative party, the Neo-Gaullist, he called on party leader Jean Jacques Chirac to become premier and went along with Chirac’s cabinet choices and legislation and set a precedent for when the same situation occurred in 1993 and again in 1997 (Roskin 2016). So under what conditions will cohabitation occur in the United States executive? Most political scientist believes because of hyper partisanship, such an even would produce a dangerous crisis in public affairs. Some argue that such a combination is unlikely to occur at all. This research paper attempts to offer conditions by which having a president and a vice president of different political party’s might

I identify with the Democratic Party because that party is more for the working class people. I agree with many of the views the democratic party stand for such as equal pay for women, higher minimal wages, gun control, lower pay for education, raising tax for the rich and this is just to name a few. The way society is today a new political party can easily be formed. I do not think it would be very successful because most people are democratic or republic. Even though we have the liberal and the independent parties that are very active. There aren’t very many people to vote in a high office like the President.

For tens and tens of years know, politics are always a popular subject and an important one. It decides in which directions is a country going by establishing laws and concepts in the society. In this paper, I will argue on the Election of Donald Trump in the United States this past November. His victory was over Hilary Clinton to become the 45th president of America after a crazy campaign.

One of the things that make American politics so interesting to observe and follow is the extreme differences in opinion and the fact that almost every voice is heard. Lately, especially with the election of President Trump, the vocal minority is baring its teeth

The American national government is a influential political system. There are many different entities that come together to make the system work as a whole. These include the key structures, systems, roles, and processes that embody our national government. Many can point of n the strengths and weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages, and positive and negative impacts of these aspects of our democracy. While completing research, it is a must to learn more about the government by breaking down the different sources that it takes to make it a whole. Some of the different area are the Constitution, federalism, branches of government, political parties, interest groups, and elections.

      There are two main types of political systems, one being a presidential system and the other being a parliamentary system. Both of them have their own benefits as well as their own disadvantages. No political system can be perfect or can always have stability, but shown in history there are successful countries that use either one. Also there are countries that have failed with one of the two systems.

Donald Trump was elected president of the United States of America on November 8th, 2016, and now has been running our country for over a year. As Trump’s first year in office slowly began, his reputation seems to be creating different outside views of our nation and arguments started producing everywhere. After competing with Hillary Clinton for the presidential term in office, Trump defeated her along with her democratic supporters causing one of the most shocking elections in U.S. history. Using public media web pages, we are reviewing both sides of the argument regarding Trump’s election and we are going to decipher why each arguer supports their side, and why each side is reasonable for the benefit of our country.

Moreover, in presidential system, both the legislative power and the chief executive power have a “fixed electoral mandate that is their own source of legitimacy” (Stepan and Skach, p.4). The president is the chief executive and is elected by the people. The president has the right to retain ministers of his or her choosing regardless of the composition of the congress. (Mainwaring and Shugart, p. 449). In addition to this, even the president combine with multiparty system and the majority in the legislature that supports president, the government can implement policies. In this system, the members of legislature can act upon legislative matters independently. Indeed under presidential system the strong presidential power is checked by the

The structure of a governments and party systems are of crucial importance for the functioning and well stable effective government. In this case let’s take example of United States and United Kingdom.