Westminster Model of Democracy

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Westminster Model of Democracy

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

Westminster Model of Democracy

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

AD - Politologie a politické vědy

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2011

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

The Encyclopedia of Political Science. Vol. 5, R-Z

ISBN

978-1-933116-44-0

Počet stran výsledku

2

Strana od-do

1768-1769

Počet stran knihy

1942

Název nakladatele

CQ Press

Místo vydání

Washington

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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