Royal Commissions, Parliamentary Privilege and Cabinet Secrecy

Modelling Cabinet Networks in Parliamentary Democracies

Parliamentary democracies represent a common type of governance structure in numerous countries. While details vary from one country to another, the structure of a parliamentary democracy entails having cabinet ministers who each have a specific portfolio of policy interests, such as healthcare, industry, or education. A set of ministers forms a government, and such governments can change due t...

Cabinet Decision Rules and Political Uncertainty in Parliamentary Bargaining

game theoretic models in political science frequently suggest that the outcomes of bargaining processes in democratic systems should be significantly influenced by the precise character of proposal and veto opportunities, on the one hand, and by informational asymmetries that exist among participants, on the other. In parliamentary systems, although the cabinet is widely recognized as the centr...

Netcare – KPMG breached client privilege to boost Competitions Commissions probe.

Stronger secrecy for network-facing applications through privilege reduction

Despite significant effort in improving software quality, vulnerabilities and bugs persist in applications. Attackers remotely exploit vulnerabilities in network-facing applications and then disclose and corrupt users’ sensitive information that these applications process. Reducing privilege of application components helps to limit the harm that an attacker may cause if she exploits an applicat...

Cabinet Rules and Power Sharing from a Comparative Perspective: Presidential and Parliamentary Democracies Reconsidered∗

Objective: In this article, we analyze the formal rules of cabinet decision-making processes within and across constitutions in parliamentary and presidential systems. Argument: We argue that the degree of power sharing between chief executives and cabinet ministers should be considered in a continuum scale, and that the level of dominance of the chief executive over cabinets varies from a cent...