Political Systems

Factors which determine the value of the electoral privilege. First, the Number of Elective officers. Manifestly the value of the suffrage and the power which its possessor is capable of wielding through -its exercise depend upon several conditions. In the first place, it necessarily varies in proportion to the number of elective officers and the … Read more

Existing Suffrage Requirements . Exceptions to the Principle of Universal Suffrage : While the principle of what is commonly described as universal suffrage at least for male citizens and in the great majority of countries for women also has now become the general rule, it is hardly necessary to say that the principle is not … Read more

Arguments  against the Political Enfranchisement of Women suffrage. Hand in hand with the spread of democracy and the extension of the Suffrage to the masses of the male population has gone the movement for the political enfranchisement of women. At the time of the French Revolution when the dogma of universal suffrage was at its … Read more

The Constitution of the electorate. Regarding the constitution of the electorate who should enjoy the franchise and who should be denied it-both theory and practice have materially varied in different epochs and in different countries. Perhaps the most remarkable phenomenon in the history of democracy in the past century has been the steady evolution of … Read more

Importance of the Electoral Function. The Constitution of the electorate and the organization of the processes through which it exercises its functions are questions of paramount importance in a system of representative government, for the reason that it constitutes the very foundation and essence of that system. As will be pointed out in the following … Read more

Succession of government forms. Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, tyranny and more. The main aspect of any philosophy of government is how political power is obtained, with the two main forms being electoral contest and hereditary succession. Theories of Early Writers : No state has retained the same … Read more

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