1. What form of government does the Constitution of India provide for?
2. What articles deal with the parliamentary system at the Centre and in the states?
3. How are modern democratic governments classified?
4. What is the parliamentary system of government?
5. What is the presidential system of government?
6. What are other names for the parliamentary government?
7. What countries have a parliamentary system?
8. What are other names for the presidential government?
9. What countries have a presidential system?
10. What did Ivor Jennings call the parliamentary system and why?
11. Why is parliamentary government also known as ‘responsible government’?
12. Why is parliamentary government described as ‘Westminster model of government’?
14. How has the Prime Minister’s power changed in the recent period?
15. What are the features or principles of parliamentary government in India?
16. Who is the nominal executive and who is the real executive in India?
17. What does Article 74 provide for?
18. What is the nature of the advice tendered by the council of ministers to the President?
19. How is the government formed in a parliamentary system?
20. Who appoints the Prime Minister and other ministers?
21. What happens if no single party gets the majority?
22. What is the bedrock principle of parliamentary government?
23. To whom are the ministers collectively responsible?
24. What does the principle of collective responsibility imply?
25. What is the usual political affiliation of members of the council of ministers?
26. What happens in case of a coalition government?
27. What does Double Membership mean in the parliamentary system?
29. What is the Prime Minister’s role in the parliamentary system?
30. Who can dissolve the lower house of the Parliament (Lok Sabha)?
31. What does the executive enjoy the right to do in a parliamentary system?
32. What principle do the ministers operate on?
33. Who administers the oath of secrecy to the ministers?
34. What form of government does the American Constitution provide for?
35. What are the features of the American presidential system of government?
36. What is the basis of the American presidential system?
37. What are the merits of the parliamentary system?
38. What is the greatest advantage of the parliamentary system?
39. How does the Parliament exercise control over the ministers?
40. How does the parliamentary system prevent despotism?
41. What happens in the parliamentary system if the ruling party loses its majority?
42. What did Dr. Jennings say about the leader of the opposition?
43. What are the demerits of the parliamentary system?
44. Why is the parliamentary system criticized for Unstable Government?
45. Why is the parliamentary system criticized for No Continuity of Policies?
46. When does the cabinet become autocratic in a parliamentary system?
47. What did H.J. Laski say about the parliamentary system?
48. What did Ramsay Muir complain about?
49. Why is the parliamentary system criticized for being Against Separation of Powers?
50. What did Bagehot point out about the cabinet?
51. Why is the parliamentary system criticized for Government by Amateurs?
52. What were the reasons for adopting the parliamentary system in India?
53. What did K.M. Munshi argue regarding familiarity with the system?
56. Why did the framers of the Constitution want to avoid legislative—executive conflicts?
57. How did the nature of Indian Society influence the adoption of the parliamentary system?
58. What was the Swaran Singh Committee’s opinion on continuing the parliamentary system?
59. What are the distinctions between the Indian and British parliamentary models?
60. What has made the ministerial advice binding on the president?
61. What did Montesquieu propound in his book The Spirit of Laws (1748)?
62. What did K.T. Shah favour?
63. Who were the three Prime Ministers who were members of the Rajya Sabha?