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Discuss the patterns of legislative-executive relationship prevalent in the world today What factors and forces have enabled the executive to overpower the legislature, in most countries?

  • UPSC 1997
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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The relation between executive and legislature is the axis on which comparative politics classifies democratic regimes. Several patterns coexist, yet in almost all of them the executive has gained at the legislature's expense — the trend James Bryce named the "decline of legislatures" in Modern Democracies (1921) and K. C. Wheare re-examined in Legislatures (1963).

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  • Patterns of the relationship
  • Why the executive prevails
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