GOVERNMENT AND DEMOCRACY

Government and Democracy

Government and Democracy

Introduction

Form of government, political form, shape state policy, political system, governance, governance, governance model and bureaucratic model are one of several ways to name a central concept of political science and the theory of the state or constitutional right. It refers to the organizational model to adopt a constitutional state based on the relationship between the different branches. The way in which the structure of political power to exercise its authority in the state, coordinating all the institutions that form, makes every form of government needs control mechanisms that are characteristic. These political models vary from state to another and from one historical epoch to another. Its formulation is typically justified by reference to very different causes: structural or idiosyncratic (territorial imperatives, historical, cultural, religious, etc.). Short periods include economic crisis, disaster, war, danger, or emergency of very different nature, empty of power, lack of consensus or leadership, etc (Cukur 2004, 613).

The kingdoms of the British Commonwealth of Nations (Commonwealth of Nations) are those in this group of states that recognize as chief of the King of England, currently Queen Elizabeth II, which takes its title these countries. Since England is one of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom, the political system is a monarchy constitutional with a parliamentary government based on the Westminster system. There had been a Government of England since 1707, when the Act of Union that year certified the union between England and Scotland, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. Prior to joining, England had its own king and its own parliament dealing with their government. England is now governed directly by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, although other constituent countries have developed their own governments. The House of Commons, the lower house of the British Parliament, which has its headquarters in the Palace of Westminster composed of 532 Members of Parliament representing different constituencies located in England, a total of 650 (Danilovich 2010, 51).

In the UK general election of 2010, the Conservative Party won an absolute majority if they have only 532 seats for England, gaining 61 seats more than all the other parties combined. However, if you add up the results in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, the result in England was not enough to secure an absolute majority, resulting in a situation known as a hung parliament or hung parliament. This situation forced Conservatives, led by David Cameron, a pact with the Liberal Democrats to form a government and to Cameron as Prime Minister.

After the decentralization of powers, in which each of the other constituent countries of the United Kingdom, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has its own parliament or assembly to local materials, has been a debate on how to compensate for this in England. Originally it was suggested that several regions of England have an assembly itself, but the rejection of this idea in a referendum held in 2004 in the region east of England stopped this reform (Davis 2003, ...