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How effectively and by what means can the legislatures in the UK and the USA hold the executive accountable?
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How effectively and by what means can the legislatures in the UK and the USA hold the executive accountable? The assemblies in the UK and the USA are bi-cameral in order to create checks and balances on the government and prevent executive dominance. There is a fusion of powers in the UK and so the government is in theory a parliamentary one as the executive is not separately elected. However, the idea of a parliamentary government is now largely a chimera as executive dominance of the legislature has created, in Hailsham's words, 'elective dictatorship'. The US government however is presidential and based upon Montesquieu's principle of separation of powers with the legislature and executive being separately elected and independent of each other. Therefore the executive dominance experienced in the UK is avoided and so the legislature can more effectively hold the executive accountable. In the UK in the twentieth century there...
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