POLI 330 DQ#1: WEEK 5: PARLIAMENTARY AND PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEMS.

POLI 330 DQ#1: WEEK 5: PARLIAMENTARY AND PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEMS. DQ#1: WEEK 5: PARLIAMENTARY AND PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEMS As we turn our focus to the international realm, let’s take a moment to compare the governmental systems of the United Kingdom and the United States. Identify a few key differences between a parliamentary and a presidential system. How is the top leader selected differently? How do you think this difference affects the kind of people who are chosen? The United Kingdom and the United States have several differences with respect to the type of government system that is implemented in each. The United States has a presidential system in which the executive leader called the President is directly chosen through a voting system (Roskin, Cord, Medeiros, & Jones, 2014). Thus, the people elect the President, the leader of the country, through the voluntary participation in the voting system. The United Kingdom has a parliamentary system that sis chosen by the general public. This type of system elects a leader called the Prime Minister or top leader, and the leader is elected directly by the legislative branch of the Parliament. In turn, the Prime Minister will tend abide to a specific group of people’s guideline or political stand rather than try to gain widespread support. In this system, there is a smaller group of people partaking in the selection of the leader making this leader adhere more adamantly to the Parliament than to the general public. Contrary to the power that the legislative branch has in a parliamentary system, in the presidential system, the legislative branch does not pose any threat to the president. The presidential candidates are more open with using strategies to gain the favor of the vast majority of the people’s votes in order to win the election. Once elected, the president can make it quite difficult for the legislative branch to make decisions (Roskin, Cord, Medeiros, & Jones, 2014). As far as the parliamentary system, the Prime Minister can be voted out if there is no confidence in the top leader and replace the Prime Minister in office (Roskin, Cord, Medeiros, & Jones, 2014). Therefore, the President responds directly to the people of the country, while the Prime minister is a subservient to the Parliament. The Presidential system far supersedes as a government with more check and balances, regardless of the time necessary to pass laws as one of its minor disadvantages per say. In a Parliament system, laws are passed much faster even though there significantly less input from the people in the process. The methods used to choose the leader for each system, Presidential or Parliamentary, has pros and cons as mentioned above. In a Presidential system, the person who decides to run for office regardless of the degree in hand, even though a law degree may very well be more aligned with the position of the executive leader can run for office. The Parliament system has less of an open door for any one to run for Prime Minister. The election tends to be very minimized to those forming part of the legislative branch and may be bias in the candidates that can run for the position.