The most senior members are the prime minister, secretaries of state, Ministers of state and parliamentary under-secretaries. The Prime minister has the duty of being in charge and selects the other members of government. There are many important departments in central government and they all are crucial but are different roles in controlling the country. The departments include home office and department of health, but also involve sport and media and the department of culture. These departments are ruled by Secretaries state that has complete liability and are staffed by impartial civil servants who get their income from money provided by parliament.
The government need to be able to rely on the MPs support for bills in parliament and regardless of the majority, there could more than 200 backbench MPs that need to be organised by a political party. The main sources of power that political parties have are through committees, debates, the voting system, the whipping system, and through scrutiny. Each of these plays a huge role in enabling political parties to exercise their power in parliament. The most evident source of power that political parties have in parliament is through the whipping system. Each party has a chief whip, a deputy chief whip and a number of junior whips.
c) Make out a case in favour of retaining the F.P.T.P electoral system for the House of Commons? (25) F.P.T.P is an electoral system used at Westminster, a ‘plurality of votes’ need to be acquired to be elected and this has to be one more than their nearest opponent. You have one vote for one MP of a single member constituency. The system on the whole is pretty broad and representative and consists of a group of people chosen to act and speak on behalf of a wider group. This system works because it produces strong, stable, decisive governments, this means that they can carry out their manifestos and have clear mandates, this means that voters have a clear understanding of the leading parties policies.
Representation: Make sure our views are heard in the government. A. 3 MODELS OF REPRESENTATION All members of Congress live in 2 worlds. In Washington they spend time dealing with the great issues of national concern. But they also spend much of their time travelling back to their district or state, where they meet with constituents and give speeches to local groups.
A sole proprietorship is an unincorporated business owned by one person. The owner of a sole proprietorship is known as a sole proprietor. Sole proprietorship is easier and less expensive to start than corporations. It can be started without anything more formal than a decision or a handshake and you can conduct business under your own name or under a trade name. In this example, Owen will be the only owner and since he wants to have employees under this business form he is allowed to hire employees whereas if he was thinking of an S- Corporation he could not have any employees.
These pressure groups have less power than most elitist groups due to lack of resources and the lack of leadership that they have. They are more like a “passive” system, where is distributed fairly, and not against the current of the pressure group. Most of these groups do not represent things the government listen to, but there are a few exceptions, Liberty being one of them. Examples of these types of groups would be the Banking Lobby. All banking staff are free to join this, but as it’s an elitist group, power is mainly concentrated way up with the shareholders of the banks, who have the ultimate say in things to do with the group.
The committee system, the core of Congress’s organization, consists of standing committees, each of which has its own policy jurisdiction, membership, and authority to act. Committees’ policy jurisdictions allow legislators who are members of those committees disproportionate influence on the policies that matter most to them and their constituents. Considered as agents of the overall House or Senate chamber, committees are delegated, first, the authority to act as gatekeepers to determine what policies will be considered, and second, the after-the-fact authority to follow up on the fate of policy proposals by serving on conference committees and, subsequently, overseeing the policy’s implementation. Congressional power is, in part, a function of its capacity to effectively represent important groups and constituencies in society, but its position and power have suffered as presidents came increasingly to be seen as
A political model that that fits the book’s political beliefs would be majoritarianism. Majoritarians believe that decisions should be made by a numerical majority of its members, in other words, decisions in the US should be made by the whole country, not the few in Congress and the House that decide what laws are passed and who are influenced by monetary bonuses from outside sources. This would be the most efficient way to handle our politics, that way everyone has a say, instead of the rich doing what’s right for the rich and leaving the middle and lower social class struggling. The pluralist model does not relate to the book at all. Pluralists believe that that politics and decision making is located within the government and outside sources have no influence on the government, which is a lie since interest groups an election fundraising exists.
The president’s plan is both politically possible and a practical starting point and I believe Americans would be well served by its enactment. After all tax cuts have historically boosted the economy to record
The House Rules Committee is a very important body of the United States Congress and helps promote the efficiency of the legislature in its everyday workings. Some of the responsibilities of the House Rules Committee include: set the amount of time a bill will be considered in the House, and determine whether amendments can be offered and under what conditions. This allows the House Rules Committee to have a lot of power and some may feel that the power may be too much. The House Rules Committee is comprised of nine members of the majority party and four members of the minority party. I believe the House Rules Committee has too much power and exceedingly boosts the majority party.