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    Topic: A presidential democracy is more likely to produce strong, effective government than a parliamentary democracy. Introduction 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. Presidential system of United States; The United State presidential system is a system of government that features a president as the nation head of state and active

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    The two types of Parliamentary democracies are direct democracy, also known as consociational or consensus democracy, and representative democracy, otherwise called majoritarian democracy (Dickovick 118-120). A consensus democracy is founded on the principle that the citizens govern directly and that power is distributed between the executive and legislative branches to prevent and limit one branch from gaining too much power. An example of a consensus democracy is Switzerland, as it promotes

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    “Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” - Henry Louis Mencken. These two types of democracy, presidential and parliamentary both contain a number of key differentiating factors. These democratic systems distinguish themselves as the leaders of the two democratic are elected in different branches of their respective government, lose their power dissimilarly, and hold clear distinctions between the head of government and the head of state. First and foremost,

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    Parliamentary democracy is a system of democratic governance, in which the executive branch is held accountable to legislative branch. In the other hand congressional democracy is a system of democratic governance in which the executive branch is separate from the legislative branch and the head of government is not a member of the legislature. Congress for example is a legislative branch of a congressional democracy. While these two have similarities they also have a few differences. In the parliamentary

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    holy land, the capital of Israel is Jerusalem. Which has approximately 809,000 people living there today. Israel is made up of a strong democracy with a parliamentary form of government. There is both a president and prime minister. But the prime minister overall, holds all the power of the government. (Cahill, Mary) What makes Israel a parliamentary democracy is that the power is held with the people. The people rule. The people are able to elect a president from a variety of 16 different political

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    constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy all in one. As a result, Australia has a queen, who resides in the United Kingdom, but is represented by a Governor-General in Australia. Following, a Prime Minister governs the country. In addition, there is a two-chamber Commonwealth Parliament that makes the laws. This diverse government is often referred to as the Westminster System. The goal of this paper is to examine Australia’s representative parliamentary democracy and if it is effective.

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    To what extent was Germany a parliamentary democracy in the years 1900-1914? A parliamentary democracy is the power in Germany being shared amongst everybody. The positions are democratically elected by the population of the country. The way Germany was run is based upon the Constitution the power lies between the Reichstag, the chancellor and the Kaiser. Germany was a parliamentary democracy based on the constitution that Germany was run by. The Bundesrat being part of the constitution consisted

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    To what Extent was Germany a parliamentary democracy in the years 1900-14? In the period 1900-1914, Germany’s political landscape witnessed extraordinary changes in which typical features associated with a parliamentary democracy- such as significant and influential pressure group activity and universal suffrage- were present. It can however be argued that this period also represented a time in which the German Reichstag did not truly represent the population due to old and corrupt voting system

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    body outside of the of the state structure. I argue that these competing groups create popular support, through ideology creation. This allow them to collect the votes they need to have access to power and resources from rent through occupying parliamentary and governmental positions. As they gain more power and resources, they are able to create more ideology and meaning, which gives them more power

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    Explain what the term parliamentary sovereignty means in the British political system. Parliamentary sovereignty is the most important part of the UK constitution. It makes Parliament the supreme legal authority in the Britain, which can create or end any law. Essentially, the courts cannot overrule its legislation and no Parliament can pass laws that future Parliaments cannot change. Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of parliamentary democracy. Parliamentary democracy vary in significant ways

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