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Component 2: UK Government and Non-core Political Ideas
Quick questions on Relationships between the branches: executive, Parliament and the EU - Edexcel A-Level Politics Component 2
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What are the case that the executive dominates?Show answer
With a secure majority the government controls the parliamentary timetable, passes its legislation, and uses the royal prerogative and secondary legislation with limited scrutiny. Lord Hailsham famously described this as an "elective dictatorship": a government that wins an election can govern with few effective checks.
What is the case that Parliament constrains the executive?Show answer
Select committees, the Lords (which revises and delays and inflicts frequent defeats), backbench rebellions, Urgent Questions, the opposition and the courts all hold government to account. Under a minority or small-majority government (2017 to 2019) Parliament repeatedly defeated the executive, showing the limits of dominance.
What is q1?Show answer
Explain and analyse three ways the executive dominates Parliament. [9 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Evaluate the view that leaving the European Union has restored parliamentary sovereignty. [30 marks]
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