Open AccessExecutive power and the head of state: issues arising from proposals to establish a republic
Author(s) -
Dennis Rose
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
policy quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-1101
pISSN - 2324-1098
DOI - 10.26686/pq.v5i1.4281
Subject(s) - parliament , prime minister , state (computer science) , law , political science , executive power , power (physics) , head (geology) , convention , constitution , governor , politics , engineering , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , geomorphology , computer science , geology , aerospace engineering
In New Zealand executive power is concentrated in the hands of the prime minister and ministers, all being members of an elected parliament upon whose continuing support they depend. This substantive power relationship is embedded in a constitutional structure in which an appointed governor-general acts as head of state, as representative of the monarch, who is also the monarch of the United Kingdom. By convention and law the head of state acts on the advice of the prime minister and ministers in all but exceptional circumstances.