Talk:Head of government

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You Suck poopbutt

This really ought to go into an article on parliamentary systems of government

The system is marked by the following:

  • The formation of a government answerable to parliament by a member (sometimes the leader) of the party or parties;
  • Full answerability of that government to parliament through
    • the ability of parliament to vote no confidence;
    • the requirement that the government gain and hold Supply;
    • answerability for its actions to whichever house (almost invariably the democratically elected upper house) controls Supply

I agree it should be in such an article, but because we are talking about a separate head of government, that requires clarifying how such a system within which a separate head of government operates, actually works. So I think this is one of the instances were duplication is necessary.

I'm going to put the bit back for that reason. I will be revisiting the article later and I may rephrase or re-contextualise the above. I certainly take your point seriously. JTD 22:35 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)

I've rewritten bits to stress where I am talking about a parliamentary system-prime minister. I think there may be more clarity. I've bullet-pointed your opening paragraph to highlight the three distinctions; presidential, semi-presidential and parliamentary. When I get the chance I'll add in more info. Are you happy with the reshaping? JTD 23:14 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)

I cleaned up the spelling and punctuation of this article, and took out the misunderstanding about 10 Downing St.

Guinnog


[edit] Head of Government???

Really? Not exactly the same phrase as Head of State, which is of course the Monarch/viceroy. Is "head of government" even a correct term in parliamentary language? I'd thought "leader", as "head" to me is a loaded word alluding to Govt House.Skookum1 21:06, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

  • On the contrary, (political) leader is a (party) political term, somewhat compromsid by associations with Führer-type titles, Head of government is a well-established generic term in legal language etc., deliberately parallel to Head of state, which does NOT apply to the viceroy, governor(-general) etcetera who are only his representatives. See the various articles Fastifex 13:37, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

I gather that in both Koreas, the Prime Minister was dominated by the President, but I don't know if it's still the case. Does that bear mentioning anywhere? Our section on relatively weak heads of government seems to refer only to absolute monarchies. Boris B 06:59, 26 August 2006 (UTC)