Case Study
Parliamentary-Presidential
Shivery, W. P. (2014). Power & choice: an introduction to political science (14th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
This is Simon allow students to learn about the fundamental differences between a parliamentary system of government and a presidential system of government by comparing case examples of each system.
Select one of the case study parliamentary examples presented at the end of chapter 14 in our textbook ( either parliamentary government in India, pp. 331-334 or parliamentary government in Germany, pp. 334-336), and compare it to either the presidential government in Mexico located on pages 358-360, or use the United States as the presidential system case example. Address the following questions in your analysis of the two case study:
1. Briefly describe the parliamentary system of the case study you have selected.
2. Describe the key characteristics and functions of the countries Parliament.
3. Describe some of the strengths and weaknesses of the countries Parliament. How do the strengths and weaknesses align with advantages and disadvantages is of a parliamentary system described in our textbook?
4. Briefly describe the presidential system of the case study you have selected.
5. Describe the key characteristics and functions of the countries presidential system.
6. Describe some of the strengths and weaknesses of the countries presidential system. How do you do strengths and weaknesses align with the advantages and disadvantage is of a presidential system described in our textbook?
7. Conclude the study comparison by identifying the system ( parliamentary system or presidential system), which you prefer, and indicate why.
You will also need to conduct some research outside the textbook. You're required to use it leads to outside sources besides the textbook. One must be from Columbia Southern University online library. Your second stores maybe from the Internet. You are permitted to use the resources listed under learning activities, but the use of the sources is not a requirement.
Formatting requirements: The paper should be a minimum of 1200 words and formatted according to APA style. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced, paraphrase and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All reference since and citations used must be in APA style.