The Executive Branch

5 important questions on The Executive Branch

What are the two different types of actors that the executive branch is composed by?

Those who are part of the political executive and those who form part of the civil service

What is the task of the executive branch?

Set strategic priorities, develop policy initiatives, draft corresponding legislature, issue government orders, mobilize support and oversee policy implementation

What is the principle of collective cabinet responsibility?

Cabinet ministers are required to back and defend government policy, even if in private they disagree with that policy
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What are tasks of the prime minister that make him/her powerful?

Coordinate the government, give its work strategic direction, the power to appoint and dismiss cabinet members, chair cabinet meetings, determine the number of ministerial departments and their tasks, appoint top civil servants, dissolve parliament and request a vote of confidence

What is NPM (New Public Management)?

It reforms decentralized the provision of services and aimed to introduce managerialism, competition, and entrepreneurship into the work of the civil service, in part by creating internal markets, splitting up larger agencies into a competing set of smaller ones, and opening up the provision of public services to private providers

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