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The American presidential system vs the parliamentary system

is is beneficial because it means there is a direct connection between the legislative and executive departments.The second key difference mentioned from before was how each system defines the conditions for removing the executive and dissolving the government. In the presidential system, the President remains in his position for the full term for which he was elected. This causes the President and his cabinet to not feel responsible to the legislature (like the Prime Minister and his cabinet feel in a parliamentary system) because the confidence of the legislature would not be critical in keeping their positions. This might then cause the President in the presidential system to act compulsively and without concern of the legislature’s wishes. The Prime Minister and his cabinet in the parliamentary system do feel responsible to the legislature because the “vote of confidence” of the legislature is crucial for them to hold their positions. On the other hand, a positive aspect of the presidential system is that the country’s government has a relatively slim chance of getting dissolved without warning, therefore giving the citizens of the country a sense of reliability.The third key difference mentioned from before was the influence that the governing system has on the structures developed by the parties in the legislature. A governing system is able to influence these structures by the practice of party discipline and this practice is typically stronger in parliamentary systems than in presidential systems. There are advantages for both having weak party discipline and having strong party discipline. The advantages of the presidential system with respect to party discipline include the evidence that relations between individual members and constituents tend to be stronger and the President and individual members are directly accountable to the voters. The advantages of the parliamentary system with respect to part...

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