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Other Forms of Government. Previews article we discuss different type of government like cabinet government, presidential, federal, and unitary government, Now we discus other type of government . Confederate Government : Confederate government may be defined as a system in which each member state of a confederation retains its own sovereignty and has such form … Read more
Unitary And Federal Government. Unitary Government considered from the point of View of the concentration and distribution of power and the relation between the central and local authorities, governments may be classified as unitary (or centralized) and federal. Where the Whole power of government is conferred by the constitution upon a, single central organ or … Read more
Features of Presidential Government.Presidential government differs from cabinet or parliamentary systems. In this system, the executive, which includes the head of state and their ministers, operates independently from the legislature.The executive’s tenure and political policies are not subject to legislative control or responsibility. In such a system, the chief of state is not merely the … Read more
Cabinet Government. Professor Burgess’s Classification:- Burgess adopts the following canons of distinction in classifying governmental forms: first, the identity or non-identity of the state with its government, second, the nature of the official tenure, including the method of constituting the official relation, third, the relation of the legislature to executive, and fourth, the concentration or … Read more
Methods of Political Science. Limitations and Difficulties:- Having endeavored to show that the study of political phenomena may under certain conditions attain the character of a science, we come now to inquire into the processes and methods by Which this may be done. First of all, however, we must note the limitations and difficulties under … Read more
Definition and scope of political science. Views of Eminent Authors:- It was a saying of a Roman jurist that all definitions are dangerous because they never go far enough and are nearly always contradicted by the facts. The truth of this observation applies as well to general propositions in political science as to those of … Read more
Political Terminology . Lack of a Precise Nomenclature : It is Characteristic of political Science that, differing from the natural sciences, it lacks a precise and generally accepted nomenclature. Such terms as “state” “government” “politics” “administration” “nation” “nationality” “liberty,” “democracy” “oligarchy, people” and many others are used in different senses and convey different meanings to … Read more
Law as a source of authority: To those for whom law is a simple command, legal by virtue of the source from Which it comes, it is not likely that such complexities as these will be popular. We are urging that law is, in truth, not the will of the State, but that from which … Read more
Co-ordination and federalism: My point may perhaps be made by saying that since society is essentially federal in nature, the body which seeks to impose the necessary unities must be so built that the diversities have a place therein. If it is true, as I have argued, that no association included the whole of myself, … Read more
Representation for authority: This is at least the path to a solution of the two issues in the problem of authority that I outlined earlier in this article. It does not, as in the classic theory of politics, begin by postulating the necessary unity of society and continue by insisting on the supremacy of the … Read more