executive Flashcards
What does the executive consist of?
PM, Monarch, cabinet
Sofa politics
Refers to the conducting of meetings
outside the cabinet so they can control
policy making (Blair)
Hung parliament
A parliament with no clear majority
Royal prerogative
The rights of the sovereign that have
not transferred to the PM
Cabinet committee
Ministers that take collective decisions
that are binding across the
government
Cabinet committee
Ministers that take collective decisions
that are binding across the
government
Cabinet office
Support collective government,
helping to ensure the effective
development, coordination and
implementation of policy
Backbencher
not a minister
Frontbencher
Government minister or shadow
government minister
Junior minister
Holds a position below cabinet level
that works in Lords, or in a
department
Secretaries of state
Ministers that head departments
Role of executive
- making government
- directing government policy
- national leadership
- controlling parliament
Powers of executive
- foreign policy leader
- exercising royal prerogative
- calling elections
- proroguing parliament
