Date: 2020
Type: Contribution to book
The failure of parliamentary government
Richard ROSE (ed.), How referendums challenge European democracy : Brexit and beyond, London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, pp. 191-207
ROSE, Richard, The failure of parliamentary government, in Richard ROSE (ed.), How referendums challenge European democracy : Brexit and beyond, London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, pp. 191-207
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/67841
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Membership of the EU tested the authority of parliamentary government in the UK. In the traditional model, the government of the day has wide discretion to make policies as long as it has a majority in Parliament. This is usually possible by the first-past-the-post electoral system awarding the party that has a plurality of votes an absolute majority of MPs. Voters can hold the government of the day to account in periodic parliamentary elections that offer a binary choice of who governs; the governing party decides what government does.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/67841
Full-text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44117-3_11
ISBN: 9783030441166; 9783030441173
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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