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The doctrine of responsible party government, as it has developed in Britain, is characteristic of much of British constitutional theory. It is derived from experience, not deduced from first principles. It turns what is seen to be functional into a norm The doctrine is consequently a guide to action, not an expression of permanently valid wisdom. It was a peculiar invention, determined by a peculiar conjunction of time and place and it has worked reasonably well in a few places for limited periods. We should therefore not be surprised that attempts to transplant it to other soils have not, on the whole, been successful, nor that the doct rine itself is contested at home, especially in recent years.
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Pulzer, P. (1987). Responsible Party Government — What Has Changed ?. In: Döring, H., Grosser, D. (eds) Großbritannien. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-93771-1_2
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