Cabinet Government in comparative perspective

这个项目探讨了内阁政府如何能够或不能够形成集体意志。内阁是议会制的核心，但公众和学术分析质疑其是否有效运作。本项目计划以多数民主和共识民主政体为例，研究内阁如何运作，并确定内阁在形成对政策或政治局势的集体看法方面发挥的不同功能。该项目旨在说明内阁的不同评价，无论是从宪法还是操作角度，还是从政策分析或政治竞争角度，都有助于定义内阁的价值，并使我们能够理解在何种情况下，内阁政府在稳定和明智的政策方面是重要的。它问的是，像澳大利亚这样的集体内阁能否在21世纪生存。

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.