英美政体英文比较ppt课件
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英美政治体系比较(附有英文版)美国政治体系的利益:三权分立互相制衡。
美国政治体系弊端:权利和权力来自军工石油复合体简单就是钱驱动政治平衡英国政治体系利益:君主立宪司法独立英国政治体系弊端:效率和虚伪的等级封建残余(比如王室的象征性授予爵位人为驱动社会分级)并维护保守力量美国是典型的资本主义民主制国家,民主的价值观和原则在美国的政治制度和政治实践中主要体现为三权分立、代议制、政党政治、利益集团政治、新闻自由和公民权利等。
美国政府机构包括立法、行政、司法三个系统,每个系统起着各自的作用,同时又相互制约,它们是直接的政策制定者。
另外美国又是一个权力多元化的社会,各种社会力量如政党、利益集团、媒体同样参与政策制定。
表面上看来决策的效率不可能很高,但进一步分析和研究后发现,问题并不这么简单,(一)民主政治是政府合法性的基础“西方政治思想史描绘的是一套价值——正义、自由、平等和私有权神圣不可侵犯——的发展和阐发。
因此,人们一直关心在多大程度上制度促进这些被认为是政体之核心的价值。
”自由主义的基础是个人主义,个人主义强调个人的自由、个人的参与或个人的经济活动,认为个体的性质决定集体的性质,这种秩序规定了个人与国家、自由与强制的关系,规定了公共权威强制力的适用范围,也包含了规范个人与权威关系必不可少的法律结构。
(二)公共利益的界定批评美国民主政治决策效率低下的一个重要理由是它损害了公共利益。
在一些事关国家利益或全民族整体利益的重大问题上,需要政府及时而果断地作出决定时,决策效率低下的弊端显而易见。
然而,对决策效率的肯定有一个不可缺少的前提条件,即高效率作出的决策是正确的,是符合公共利益的。
(三)改革的渐进性效率主要针对的是某种政治制度满足政府基本功能的程度,一种社会制度的生存能力不仅取决于“民主”这样的价值判断因素,而且也取决于效率,价值判断与取向解决的是某种政治统治是否具有合法性的问题。
通过以上分析可以看出,在美国政治中民主和效率在有些时候和一定程度上是一对矛盾,但解决这一矛盾的方法不能靠取消民主制度来实现的,“消除民主弊端的办法是更多的民主。
Contrasts between the American and British Political Systems SimilaritiesThe first western capitalist political systems created by British are praised as the source and model of the western political system. On the basis of absorbing and drawing lessons from Britain ,U.S.A. has formed the most perfect political system in the contemporary capitalist countries. So there are many similarities between the American and British political systems.1.Head of StateBoth the U.S. and British political systems have a head of state .The president is the official head of state in the US. The president is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College to a four-year term.In the U.K., the queen or king is the official head of state. But the queen or king is only a figure head without real authority.However, the prime minister usually has the spotlight on political matters and is the official head of government2.The Upper HouseBoth the U.S. and British political systems have an upper house. The United States has a Senate as the upper house of the legislative branch and the U.K. has the House of Lords.The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. Each U.S. state is represented by two senators, regardless of population. Senators serve staggered six-year terms.The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster.The House of Lords is the second chamber of Parliament. It is independent from, and complements the work of, the House of Commons – they share responsibility for making laws and checking government action.3.The Lower HouseBoth the U.S. and British political systems have a lower house. The U.S. House of Representatives and the British House of Commons have a great deal in common. Each house is made up of representatives elected by the people. In both systems control of the lower house goes to the party that has the most seats.The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The number of districts in a state is determined by a count of the population taken every 10 years.The House of Commons comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords (the upper house). The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members (since 2010 General Election), who are known as Members of Parliament (MPs). Members are elected through the first-past-the-post system by electoral districts known as constituencies. They hold their seats until Parliament is dissolved (a maximum of five years after the preceding election).Differences1.Form of governmentThe USA is a republic, while the UK is a constitutional monarchy.Constitutional monarchy is a form of government in which a monarch acts as head of state within the parameters of a constitution, whether it be a written, uncodified or blended constitution.A republic is a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, have supreme control over the government and where offices of state are elected or chosen by elected people. In modern times, a common simplified definition of a republic is a government where the head of state is not a monarch.ernmentThe government consisting of three parts,or branches,the executive,the legislative and the judicial in USA. Each branch has powers that the others do not have and each branch has a way of counteracting and limiting any wrongful action by another branch.The president has the power to make treaties with other nations and to make all appointments to federal positions,including the position of Supreme Count justice.The Senate ,however must approve all treaties and confirm all appointments before they become official. In this way the Congress can prevent the president from making unwise appointments.However,the UK government is not split into branches. The House of Commons reigns supreme, and the party with the greatest number of members of the Commons is the governing party. The leader of the governing party becomes Prime Minister, who almost has the power of a king. He or she alone has the power to declare war, to make alliances, to use nuclear weapons, and to appoint the people of his choice to the Cabinet, the various government ministries and offices of state. These appointments are entirely his choice and are not subject to scrutiny or confirmation by any other person of body. The Prime Minister also has the power to dismiss (“demand the resignation of”) any serving minister or secretary of state.3.The constitutionThe United States has a written constitution which is very difficult to change. The UK does not have a single document called the constitution but instead its constitutional provisions are scattered over various Acts of Parliament, any of which can be changed by a simple majority in the Parliament such as statute law, the common laws and conventions.4.The political partiesThe United States has two major political parties.One is the Democratic Party.The symbol of the party is the donkey. The other is the Republican Party. The symbol of the party is the elephant.There are three major national parties in UK—The Conservative party ,the Labour party and the Liberal Democrats.In the United States, the Democratic and Republican Parties absolutely dominate federal and state elections with independents securing only small proportions of the vote. In the United Kingdom, the two main political parties - Conservative and Labour - win a smaller and declining share of the total vote, with a growing share being taken by the likes of the Liberal Democrat Party and the UK Independence Party at national level and by the likes of the Scottish and Welsh Nationalist Parties at the devolved level.In conclusion, a political system is an important integration of a country’s politics and different countries have their distinctive features.。
The political system comparison Through learning the course about the society and culture of major English-speaking countries an introduction,I expand my horizons and learn a lot. Now I would like to talk about the similarities and differences of Britain and the United states political system .First of all, we learn about the political system. Political system belongs to the superstructure , is about the state power management form and relevant national political activities .It includes some basic content about the main form of government, national structure and rule method.Britain and the United States both belong to the capitalist countries, but the two countries have different political system. So here we will to compare the differences between the Britain and the United States .Firstly, Britain is a typical constitutionalmonarchy . The parliament is the top legislature and highest organ of state power.the Cabinet responsibility .While the USA is a constitutional federal republic.The second difference is the form of government. British government consists of king or queen,Parliament and Cabinet.American government consists of Congress,president and Supreme Court.Thirdly,the status and power of the head of state is different.Monarch is the official head of state in Britain. But the monarch is hereditary and reigns but does not govern.He is the symbol of nation and has no real power.But in the United States,thepresident is the head of state He is also government leaders and the country's armed forces commander.The executive power concentrated in the President.The President decided to domestic and foreign policies with very broad powers.Fourthly,the relation of legislative and executive is different.The chief executive of Britain is Prime Minister. Prime Minister and Cabinet are responsible to the parliament. Parliament supervise Cabinet.But the prime minister has the right to dissolve parliament.The prime minister, cabinet and parliament check each other.The chief executive of the United States is the president.The President is responsible for the constitution.He has the right to veto the bill, but has no right to dissolve parliament.The vote can be overridden by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and House of sentatives.Congress and the president have equal status and check each other.Fifthly,electoral system is different. The citizens in Britain can elect the house of Commons,the king and the house of lords is not elected by citizens.Inthe United States ,Congress and the president are both directly elected by citizens.So American have bigger rights than British.What causes the difference between Britain and the United States about the political system.There are some reasons.Firstly,the principal contradiction of British bourgeois revolution is the bourgeois class and feudal ruling class contradiction.While the United States is the contradiction of the bourgeois and the colonial rulers.Secondly, the bourgeois revolution in Britain is earlier, the power of the bourgeoisie is limited. Implementing a constitutional monarchy is actually bourgeois compromising to feudal forces.During the bourgeois revolution of the United States, capitalism went through a period of development again, the strength became morepowerful.There are also some Similarities between them. Above all,Britain and the United States both in power of Bourgeois class and capitalist country.They carry out universal suffrage.Then,they implement separation of the three powers.Legislative, executive, and judicial branch restrict and supervise each other,but just decentralization levels are difference.They are built on the foundation of capitalist private ownership of the means of production and service for bourgeois .What's more,they established in the same way.Through the establishment of legal documents, from the rule of man to the rule of law.American and British political system can say have the differences and similarities.As the product of bourgeois revolution, British and Americanpolitical system has its historical progress , so they are worth us to think and study.。