Topic > Cabinet (parliamentary) form of government - 1587

“It has been said that one of the major political problems of the age is reconciling representative institutions with good government.” Keeping this problem in mind, the cabinet form of government, which is almost synonymous with the parliamentary form of government, was established to reduce the gap between representative institutions and good governance or, if possible, to make them one through its unification. of powers. Past forms of representative government have become extinct or seriously disturbed due to numerous weaknesses. The first problem of representative government that the ministerial system tries to reconcile is the lack of cooperation between executive and legislative powers. This can happen when different parties control each branch of government. This government paralysis is seen as a danger to the government system. Lack of cooperation can also occur because the citizens of a country consider the executive to be the leader, but often the executive cannot have any power due to the lack of cooperation from the legislature. Overall, there is a persistent tendency in representative government for powers to become dissonant, thus rendering the government unable to take any action. The government system sees this traffic jam as a completely avoidable evil. Parties are often found in representative government. Perhaps the most widespread danger in a party system is party split, which paralyzes government as much as a divergence between the executive, legislative and judicial powers within it. the people. The cabinet system sees the removal of powers such as referendums from citizens as one of... middle of paper......New York: Europa Publications, 2002), sv “Parliamentary Government.”Alice Sturgeis, The Type Code of parliamentary procedure, 3rd ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1993), 4-5.Sir Ivor Jennings, Cabinet Government (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951), 17-19.Ibid.Dormin J. Ettrude, The Reference Shelf: Cabinet Form of Government (New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1923), 21.Sir Ivor Jennings, Cabinet Government (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951), 1.Julia E. Johnsen, Cabinet Form of Government (New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1926), 55.Sir Ivor Jennings, Cabinet Government (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951), 214-5.Ibid., 455-6.Ibid., 29-31Ibid., 420.Vernon Bogdanor, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Institutions (New York: Basil Blackwell Inc., 1987), section “Cabinet / Cabinet Government.”