To What Extent Do Cabinets Play A Role in The political executive? A cabinet is delineated as a committee of senior ministers who represent the different government departments or ministers. Most political executives have some form of cabinet. However, the nature of the role of cabinet is dependant on the country it is featured in and the nature of that countries political system. All cabinets though, serve two principal functions: they allow government to display …showed first 75 words of 546 total…

…showed last 75 words of 546 total…as being stronger than UK prime ministers, since they can only be removed by a vote of ‘constructive no confidence’. As a result Bundestag can only deposit a government by giving it to an alternative one, unlike Britain where the withdrawal of proponents would mean this. Margaret Thatcher’s resignation in 1990 and Bob Hawke’s loss of leadership, (the Australian prime minister), are brilliant remainders that the chief executives cannot survive without sanction from cabinet.