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Parliamentary executive
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An executive, typically composed of a prime minister and cabinet, that is drawn from, and accountable to, the parliament, and is formed through parliamentary elections.
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Presidential executive
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An executive that is headed by a separately elected president, who enjoys political and constitutional independence from the parliament.
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Cabinet
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A group of senior ministers that meets formally and regularly, and is chaired by the chief executive; cabinets may make policy or be consultative.
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Presidentialism
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Personalized leadership that is disengaged from parties or other government bodies, in the manner of an executive president.
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Semi-presidential system
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A system of government in which a separately elected president presides over a government drawn from, and accountable to, the assembly.
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Patronage
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The practice of making appointments to office, or, more widely, the granting of favours.
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Imperial presidency
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A presidency that has broken free from its constitutional bounds and threatens to dominate the other two branches of government.
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Impeachment
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A formal process for the removal of a public official in the event of personal or professional wrongdoing.
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Cohabitation
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An arrangement in a semi-presidential system in which the president works with a government and assembly controlled by a rival party or parties.
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Thatcherism
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The free-market/strong-state ideological stance adopted by Margaret Thatcher; the UK version of the New Right political project.
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Personalization
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A process through which the importance of individual politicians grows over time at the expense of political groups, such as political parties.
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Bonapartism
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A style of government that fuses personal leadership with conservative nationalism; for Marxists, it reflects the relative autonomy of the state.
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Authenticity
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The quality of being genuine or real.
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Political correctness
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Language, behaviour, or opinions that are supposedly ‘correct’ because they comply with egalitarian, non-discriminatory, anti-authoritarian, and other standards.
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