Features of parliamentary form of government:
Following are the main features of parliamentary form of government :
1. Dual executive:
In parliamentary government, dual executive works. In this system, the President is the constitutional head (nominal executive). Head of governance (real executive) is the Prime Minister, who is responsible for governance-related works.
2. Close rapport between Executive and Legislature:
In parliamentary government, the executive and legislature have close relations. Real executive and council of ministers is appointed from the legislature, and these are is responsible towards the legislature for their actions and policies.
3. Collective Responsibility:
Main feature of parliamentary government is ‘collective responsibility. It means that, for any work of a minister, he only is not answerable, instead, whole ‘cabinet’ is answerable to the legislature.
4. Leadership of Prime Minister:
In parliamentary government, the Prime Minister is the head (leader) of the government. The decision of cabinet is ultimately dependent upon him.
5. Political uniformity:
Political uniformity means that all the members of the cabinet belong to the same political party and are having same principles / outlook. Because of unity of political views, there is unity in policies, programmes and principles of the cabinet.
6. Confidentiality:
In this system of governance, all the activities of the cabinet are kept secret / confidential.
