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administration.
a. Executive:
• Real or Nominal,
• Single or Plural
• Cabinet system
• Each component of government must be independent within its own sphere of competence;
• There must be an umpire, usually a supreme court, to restore intergovernmental disputes over
the boundaries of their legal authority; and
• Each constituent government must operate directly on the people rather than indirectly
through the other tier.
The comparative study of federal Political
systems:
In this topic, five principal bases for the comparative study of federal political
through which the political scientist can identify and explore both the similarities
and differences between distinct federal systems. The five bases are as follows:
a. Structure of the Federation:
• Westminster Model; based on representative or parliamentary model
• Hybrid Model
b. The Sociological Bases of Federation:
• Scholarly debates of federal origin
c. Political Economy
• The basis of ideology.
The main focus of the intellectual debate about the role of political parties in
federations has been how far their internal organisation and the structure of party
systems have impinged upon the operation and maintenance of federal systems.
This is an intricate relationship that requires close and careful examination since
it involves a whole host of factors that are interrelated in complex fashion.
e. Constitutional Reform and Judicial
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