Archive Report
Archive Report
The perpetually recurring cabinet crises in Continental European countries and the frequency with which elections are held make it important to analyze their political systems in order to be able to form a better understanding of the causes and meaning of such crises. In France, Germany and Italy, the three Continental countries that will be chiefly considered in this report, the present position of the Cabinet in office is insecure and an early change of Ministry is freely predicted in political circles and in the press. The new Luther Cabinet in Germany promises to show no mere stability than those that have gone before.
The Cabinet System
All the governments of Europe except Soviet Russia are modeled on the British Parliamentary system.1 The head of the ...