Westminster Model of Democracy

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Westminster Model of Democracy
Original language description
Westminster model of democracy is based on the British system of government in which executive power is derived from the legislative power, e.g. the parliament and theoretically it is responsible to it. This model of democracy is closely related to the United Kingdom and some aspects could be found in New Zealand, Canada, Israel or India, and, moreover, this model was popular in the first post-colonial decade in the African independent states too. The term 'Westminster model' was formulated by Arend Lijphart in his work Democracies. Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus Government in Twenty-One Countries (1984) as a opposite model to consensus democracy; he used it interchangeably to the term majoritarian democracy. According to Lijphart's definition,"the essence of Westminster democracy is majority rule, e.g. government by the majority and in accordance with the majority's wishes comes closer to the democratic ideal than government by and responsive to a minority" which can be relat
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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