Cabinet Government in comparative perspective

这个项目探索内阁政府如何能够或不能发展集体意志。内阁是议会制度的核心，但公众和学术分析质疑它们是否有效。利用多数民主政体和协商一致的民主政体的例子，该项目计划检查内阁如何运作，并确定内阁在形成对政策或政治局势的集体看法方面所发挥的不同职能。该项目希望说明内阁的不同理解，无论是被视为合宪的还是可操作的，或者在政策分析或政治竞争方面，如何帮助定义内阁的价值观，并使我们能够理解内阁政府在什么情况下对于稳定和明智的政策是重要的。它提出的问题是，像澳大利亚这样的集体内阁能否在21世纪生存下来。

This project explores how cabinet government is, or is not, able to develop a collective will. Cabinets lie at the heart of parliamentary systems, but public and academic analyses question whether they work effectively. Using examples of majoritarian and consensus democratic regimes, this project plans to examine how cabinets work and identify the different functions cabinet plays in developing collective views of policy or political situations. The project expects to illustrates how the different appreciations of cabinet, whether seen as constitutional or operational, or in terms of policy analysis or political contests, help define the values of cabinet and can allow us to understand in what circumstances cabinet government is important in terms of stability and sensible policy. It asks if collective cabinets like Australia's can survive in the 21st century.