From 2b3002bc792aeb9515fc8c50f7552c1997ad5c04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holden Rohrer Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 17:42:35 -0400 Subject: vp and comparative notes in INTA --- rich/23_comp | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 rich/23_comp (limited to 'rich/23_comp') diff --git a/rich/23_comp b/rich/23_comp new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6f0d5d --- /dev/null +++ b/rich/23_comp @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Review: + Presidential and Parliamentary vary by levels of independence. + +Pres: +- Responsible to the "people" not legislative branch +- Power is diffuse and slower than direct work with legislative +- Fixed tenure + +Parliament: +- More oversight from the legislature +- PM Responsible to Legislative Branch +- Concentrated power (theoretically more timely and efficient) +- (Mostly) unfixed tenure + +Takeaway +- Parliamentary systems *tend* to be more stable, efficient, accountable +- Presidential System tends to separate powers better because of Checks + and Balances, as long as legislative branch retains this spirit. + - In the US, this hasn't exactly happened +- But this has only mostly changed because the Senate used to be elected + entirely independently of popular vote -- cgit