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Responsible government. Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy. [1] Governments (the equivalent of the executive branch) in Westminster democracies are responsible to parliament rather than ...
Political representation is the activity of making citizens "present" in public policy -making processes when political actors act in the best interest of citizens according to Hanna Pitkin's Concept of Representation (1967). [ 1][ 2] This definition of political representation is consistent with a wide variety of views on what representing ...
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.The strategy aims to utilize "militant anti poverty groups" to facilitate a "political crisis" by overloading the welfare system via an increase in welfare claims, forcing the creation of a system of guaranteed minimum income and ...
Duverger's law. In political science, Duverger's law ( / ˈduvərʒeɪ / DOO-vər-zhay) holds that in political systems with single-member districts (as in the U.S.), two main parties tend to emerge with minor parties typically splitting votes away from the most similar major party. [ 1][ 2] In contrast, systems with proportional representation ...
Participatory democracy, participant democracy, participative democracy, or semi-direct democracy is a form of government in which citizens participate individually and directly in political decisions and policies that affect their lives, rather than through elected representatives. [ 1] Elements of direct and representative democracy are ...
Mathew D. McCubbins. Mathew Daniel McCubbins (8 December 1956 – 1 July 2021 [1]) was the Ruth F. De Varney Professor of Political Science and professor of law, in the Department of Political Science and School of Law at Duke University. [2]
Democratic centralism is the organisational principle of communist states and of most communist parties to reach dictatorship of the proletariat. In practice, democratic centralism means that political decisions reached by voting processes are binding upon all members of the political party. It is mainly associated with Leninism, wherein the ...
Basic forms of government. Representative democracy (also called electoral democracy or indirect democracy) is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public. [ 1] Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of representative democracy: for example, the United Kingdom (a unitary parliamentary ...