Great Britain and France: Recipes for Failure?

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This paper argues that the political systems utilized in the UK and in France are ultimately recipes for failure. They are each inherently fractious systems which produce divided, multi-party governing bodies. It argues that, as a result, they are unstable, creating governments of short duration, and they are inefficient, poorly fulfilling the representative objectives to which they aspire.

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"Great Britain is a parliamentary democracy in which citizens have the right to vote for the parliament and government of their choice. The British Parliament has three components: the House of Commons (1), an elected body consisting of 659 paid members, the House of Lords(2), an unelected body consisting of hereditary members, senior bishops of the Church, and others nominated mainly by the major political parties, and the Monarchy(3), an unelected post- largely ceremonial and necessarily impartial. Jointly, the three governing bodies pass laws, provide the government with funds, and(in the House of Lords) debate policy and relevant issues of the day(Britain in the USA, 1999)."

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