The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a constitutional democracy which operates a parliamentary system in which the monarch is the head of state, holding the symbolic power and prestige of the U.S. President.
Real decision-making power and responsibility rest with the party with the most elected Members of Parliament in the House of Commons. The ruling party's leader is Prime Minister.
Defenders of the parliamentary system like to point out the country's leader is not as impervious to criticism as is the president of a republic such as the United States. National pride and prestige rests in the office of the head of state (in the case of the United Kingdom, this is the Queen) whose functions are mainly ceremonial.
Canada and India are other parliamentary democracies using modified versions of Britain's 'Westminster' model in which candidates in local constituencies or 'ridings' are elected to parliament, and the party with the most members of parliament (MPs) constitutes the government.
Spain, Germany and South Africa have developed their own forms of parliamentary democracy in which party leadership essentially choose candidates for elected positions that are voted on nationally, and proportionally. France's government has elements that resemble both the U.S. republican and European parliamentary system.
2007-06-28 06:48:18
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answered by gam 4
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Type Of Government In England
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England per se does not have a government, although Scotland and Wales do. The government of England is the government of the United Kingdom. It is a Constitutional Monarchy whereby the Monarch while Head of State has almost no governmental power, legislative power being held by Parliament, principally residing in the House of Commons which is an elected body theoretically in the manner of Representative Democracy. However, it is in reality a faux democracy because only a tiny minority of MPs actually act so as to represent the views of their constituents. Instead they represent the views their political party, even when a so-called 'free vote' is allowed. Thus we have at best an elective oligarchy or elected dictatorship. It is this last, Elected Dictatorship, that is the true face of our system of government.
2016-04-05 09:57:24
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2015-08-18 13:48:37
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answered by Dianne 1
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The executive is a constitional monarchy, which oversees a parliamentry democracy.
What that means is that the Queen has the ultimate power to do things (go to war, call an election etc.), but a parliament is elected to govern. From the parliament, ministers are chosen, and one of them is the prime minister, who is appointed by the Queen (her power), to lead the government.
In practice, the Queen is symbolic and the Prime Minister and his/her advisors have virtually all of the power.
2007-06-28 06:39:31
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answered by superstar dj 3
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It's not a monarchy it's a parliamentary democracy with an upper and lower house.
It ceased being a monarchy with all those revolutionary wars the planet had back in the lat 18th early 19th century. In fact, it's the world's first parliamentary democracy.
2007-06-28 06:40:10
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answered by X M 3
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englands government is a monarchy. It has a queen and also a house of parliament. most people consider the queen to be a figure head but hey who knows.
2007-06-28 06:37:51
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answered by tinkerbell 2
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A Constitutional Monarchy I believe.
2007-06-28 06:32:29
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answered by booman17 7
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Its a Monarchy. Controlled by the Royal Family. King and Queen. They are like the president there.
2007-06-28 06:33:59
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