Parliamentary System Essay

Chance Yagabo

Dr. Schorn

November 7, 2014

Parliamentary System in the United States

The world has been ruled by humans through a form of a government system. Through the history of humankind, we have seen enormous types of institutions. Monarchy is the oldest form of government system in the entire world, and exists today in some parts of the world. For many years, the world has practiced democracy through different types of authoritarian systems. The ancient history systems have formed a footprint for how the government should be established. Every civilized society has a structure of government to keep order over the members of the society. The changes of a regime might seem skeptical but it’s

Its removal might cause civil war. This paper will replace a presidential institution of the United States with an institution of parliament. Let’s now take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of the current system the United States has. In Parliamentary Versus Presidential Government, Arend, Lijphart has debated disadvantages and advantages of the presidential system. The advantage of presidential government, executive stability, is based on the president’s secured term of office; it contrasts with the executive instability that may result in a parliamentary system’s use of the legislature’s power to dissatisfied cabinets by the votes of snap election, the cabinet can lose majority support in the legislature (Lijphart 1992, p.11). In reference to Lijphart, the second major advantage of presidential government is that the popular vote in the election of the chief executive can be viewed as more democratic than the indirect election formal or informal of the executive in parliamentary systems. The president must be directly elected by the people for him to hold executive office. In presidential systems, executives and legislators are detach from each

The parliamentary system has historically performed better than the presidential system in terms of democratic stability, according to Linz, “due to an institutional design that can sustain democratic governance in countries with multiple parties and deep political and social cleavages.” Linz offers several reasons to explain why parliamentary systems generate greater democratic stability. Prime minister (P.M) and parliament work together on legislation to pass a bill and it is much easier. According to Teachers’ Curriculum Institute, the political party that wins a majority of the seats in the legislative branch forms a new administration. If no single party wins a majority, several parties join together to form the legislative branch of the