By S.E. Finer
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Moreover the electorate is an extraordinarily sensitive vast mass of voters are convinced Labour or Con- The servative supporters roughly equal in numbers. It is the "floating vote" which by swinging its support turns one government out and installs its rivals. e. some 2000 voters in the average constituency. Furthermore, no government knows quite who these people are! It may be the 'housewife', the cyclists or the motorists. Every minority complaint must be wet-nursed. Consequently every decision of the Cabinet is a calculated risk.
33 1940 BOOK II THE CONDITIONS OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION: FUNCTION CHAPTBR 1 THE STRUCTURE OF THE EXECUTIVE / could see the sides of "... of Galleries and Stairs, other . . it, encompassed with several gradations at certain intervals, to descend from one to the / could see four or five stairs to the top men running sent for orders to in great haste and happened rightly to conjecture " some person in Authority. . . Swift: up the that they A Voyage to Laputa. Western democracies the general structure of the Executive It is organized with two considerations in view, viz.
These are of two kinds, the Standing, or Permanent, and the Ad Hoc. At the time of writing, there appear to be four Standing Committees. The Home Affairs Committee considers the technical aspects of Government and drafting problems and in this it is advised and by the Drafting Office and other officials. It is also responsible for preparing the annual programme of legislation to be included in the King's Speech at the opening of the Session. Its minutes are circulated to the Cabinet and thereafter its recommendations appear on the agenda for final discussion by the whole Cabinet.