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The important difference isn't between monarchy or republic, but how the executive is chosen. Parliamentary democracies elect the prime minister. Presidential d
by ianburrell 3y ago
The important difference isn't between monarchy or republic, but how the executive is chosen. Parliamentary democracies elect the prime minister. Presidential democracies have separate executive. For example, Ireland is parliamentary republic; the president is only head of state, the prime minister has all the power.
- pi-e-sigma 3y agoThat's not true. It varies by country, in some most power is hold by president, in some by premier, yet in some it's a mixture. But I don't know any country with a premier who is elected by the people. He is either selected by president or is the leader of the winning party. The executive can be chosen in various ways in a monarchy, too, because there are constitutional monarchies, too, where power of a monarch is limited (famously the UK is still a constitutional monarchy, but their monarch holds almost no power, but it wasn't so historically). You obviously only had the worst kind of monarchy in mind, the absolute monarchy
- ianburrell 3y agoI was conusing; in parliamentary democracies, the parliament chooses the prime minister. There are hybrids like France with head-of-state President with lots of power; I can't tell how different from monarch "choosing" the prime minister. We're not talking about absolute monarchies. For one thing, doesn't really matter how selects the government. It also doesn't really matter for absolute governments if power is inherited, inherited without acknowleding like North Korea, or says is President.