PERKASA (Persatuan Pribumi Perkasa) is a non-governmental or a civil society that is Malay dominance (a political concept emphasising Malay superior or pre-eminence in present-day Malaysia) organization that was formed by Ibrahim Ali in the aftermath of the Malaysian general elections in 2008. This conservative, extreme-right, ethnic Malay organization is led by its president Ibrahim Ali, with Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, as advisor and Dato’ Faud Hassan as…
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary unicameral government has or consists of a single legislative chamber. Whereas, a bicameral government has, or consists of two legislative chambers. The latter of the two aforementioned forms of government seems less appropriate. This is due to its additional legislative chamber. Whereas the unicameral legislature is more efficient, dependable, and productive. In bicameral legislatures they are split into two houses; the Senate and the House of…
Presidential and Parliamentary systems are used around the world in order to control the government and keep the peace and safety of the country. Each system handles the operation of the executive system in different ways as they divide power between different people. Despite the major differences between branches they both manage to provide for their countries and effectively run the government. While both of these systems are successful, they are not without their faults. Each system has their…
have presidential systems of government. On the contrary, there are many parliamentary democracies and historically, they have performed better. Three major problems of presidential systems can be deduced from his essay; 1) Dual legitimacy, 2) fixed term, and 3) winner-takes-all logic. After explaining all three problems, this paper argues that winner-takes-all logic is as much applicable to parliamentary systems as it is to presidential systems. First, in presidential systems, the president…
Aucoin, P. (2012). New Political Governance in Westminster Systems: Impartial Public Administration and Management Performance at Risk. Governance, 177-199. This article analyzes the increasing political pressures in four parliamentary systems, which include Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand. It looks at pressures from mass media, transparency in the government, more in depth audits, increased political competition and political restrictions in the electorate. The article then…
within our parliamentary system (New Zealand Parliament 2014). This parliamentary system is embodied in constitutional law, and as a formal legal structure, it displays information in regards to the relationship between the three main branches of government. These three main branches are the judiciary (applies, sometimes makes law), the executive (initiates and administers law) and the legislature (creates the law) (Mulgan 53-54). All these branches are present both in the Westminster system…
Industrialized democratic states have forged from colonial systems and traditional monarchies that now have evolved into a new system to fit the present majority states. Across European states, there are constitutional accepted guidelines approved by the Legislative to permit the Executive to exercise some form of powers in regards to the policy process. Modern democratic states now run under a parliamentary or presidential system in which governing vary in the division of power and in the way…
will focus on the differences between parliamentary and presidential systems, explaining their main characteristics and claiming that parliamentarism is more democratic because of the executive constraints that it has. One of the defining feature of presidentialism is the lack of “legislative responsibility”, it means that the government acts according to the will of the President, not to the legislature assembly. Therefore, governments in presidential systems do not have the need of preserve…
Most of the countries in South America and Central part have a presidential system. The main thing about having a presidential system is that the “president is directly elected and his or her executive power is balanced by a legislature that is independent of the president because it, too, is popularly elected.” (Newton, 2009) The presidential government…
their political system. A democracy, is a government system where the people have the direct influence and control over the actions of the government and who leads it. Most commonly, democracies have only risen out of empires, dictatorships, and monarchies within the last few centuries. Although they also feature the idea of involving the people, there are many different forms of democracy and the structures of each nation’s government. From a presidential democracy or a parliamentary…