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• TITLE: Executive Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies: A Comparative Overview: Britain, Germany, India and Ethiopia

  AUTHORS: Andualem Nega Ferede

  KEYWORDS: Legal Framework, Executive, Accountability, Parliamentary Democracy, Separation of Power, Answerability

  JOURNAL NAME: Beijing Law Review, Vol.9 No.5, October 25, 2018

  ABSTRACT: Democracies especially parliamentary democracies must ensure that public bodies and officials are performing to their full potential, providing value for money in the provision of public services, building confidence in the society, and being responsive to the community they are meant to be serving. The objective of the article is to explain and compare on the functioning parliamentary democracies, Britain, Germany, India and Ethiopia, to give an insight how the parliaments account the executive to bring better governance. Britain is the oldest parliamentary democracy; Germany with handy parliamentary democracy and functional federalism and India is the largest parliamentary democracy. These countries have much experience Ethiopia has to learn. Thus the article considered the institutional structure of accountability; parliamentary control strategies without jeopardizing the concept of separation of powers in a these four countries. The parliamentary system is portrayed under FDRE Constitution and other legislations. The article explored these laws and practical situations and tried to associate with other parliamentary democracies.