Kritische Studien zum wirtschaftlichen Problem des Zwei- und Dreischichtensystems in Hochofenbetrieben

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 1750799545

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-125444

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Schönfeld, Hans http://d-nb.info/gnd/129442534

Title:: Kritische Studien zum wirtschaftlichen Problem des Zwei- und Dreischichtensystems in Hochofenbetrieben

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Fischer

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: IV, 86 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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crap. vir] CABINET SYSTEM IN DOMINIONS 327 issued a long report, but so far nothing has resulted from the discussions, though several prominent statesmen have pronounced themselves as being definitely opposed to it. Tt is difficult to see how elective ministries can be harmonized with effective parliamentary government, and it is very doubtful whether after experience of full parliamentary government any dominion or state would care to confine itself to a position in which the Ministry of the day was independent of votes in Parliament, and could not be dis- placed for a fixed period! Moreover, it would complicate, though this is not a very important matter, the relations of the Crown with the Dominion Governments and Parliaments. On the other hand, it must be admitted that constant changes of Ministry, such as happen in the Commonwealth, are opposed to all efficient administration; the remedy appears to lie not in making ministries elective, but in refraining from changes in the administration except on substantial grounds, and when changes are made, in appoint- ing new members to the vacated posts rather than in transferring existing members to them, thereby upsetting the whole scheme of the Government. One result of the small size of parties is that the rule, perhaps too strictly observed in the Imperial Parliament, that a Government will go out if defeated on any measure of any importance at all in the Lower House has not been * The Sydney Bulletin advocates it, and it is more or less of a plank in the Labour party’s programme; cf. Walker, Australasian Democracy, pp. 26, 277; Reeves, State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand, i. 64 seq. The Labour party has itself, as has been noted, adopted the caucus system of deciding on ministers and policy, a practice somewhat vehemently resented by their opponents, but one which it is difficult to avoid and which secures effective legislation. Then should be noted here the extraordinary influence in Victoria of the late Mr. David Syme, proprietor of the Age, who was admittedly consulted, and in many cases obeyed, by practically every Victorian Ministry, as is proved beyond doubt by his Life. Elective Federal ministers were deemed necessary, because of the curious character of the Upper House in Australia, by Sir 8. Griffith, Sir R. Baker, and others ; see Quick and Garran, Constitution of Common- wealth, pp. 708, 709.

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