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Cabinet government refers to any government in which most executive power is invested in a cabinet - often the members act with cabinet collective responsibility
Cabinet collective responsibility

Cabinet collective responsibility is constitutional convention in governments using the Westminster System that members of the Cabinet must publicly support all governmental decisions made in Cabinet, even if they do not privately agree with them....
. Traditionally, the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 has had a cabinet government - if, however, one subscribes to the view that the prime minister
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the political leader of the United Kingdom and the head of government Her Majesty's Government....
 has become dominant (as opposed to primus inter pares
Primus inter pares

Primus inter pares , the first among equals, or first among peers is a phrase which indicates that a person is the most senior of a group of people sharing the same rank or office....
) and often bypasses cabinet, the United Kingdom has become a country of prime ministerial government
Prime ministerial government

Prime ministerial government is a government where the prime minister is dominant in terms of the executive . As the prime minister is, by definition, a member of a Cabinet - this form of government is often a development from cabinet government....
. Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990....
 and Tony Blair
Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair is a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007....
 have both been credited with (or blamed for) the "presidentialisation
Presidential system

A presidential system is a system of government where an executive branch exists and presides separately from the legislature, to which it is not wikt:accountable and which cannot, in normal circumstances, wikt:dismiss it....
" of the prime minister due to their extensive use of bilateral meetings, Prime Minister's Office
Prime Minister's Office

The Prime Minister's Office is a small department which provides advice to a Prime Minister in some countries:* Office of the Prime Minister ...
 and their authority (from landslide victories
Landslide victory

In politics, a landslide victory is the victory of a candidate or political party by an overwhelming margin in an election....
).

In Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 cabinet government is the norm, with the Cabinet taking votes on many areas of policy, including much foreign policy.






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Cabinet government refers to any government in which most executive power is invested in a cabinet - often the members act with cabinet collective responsibility
Cabinet collective responsibility

Cabinet collective responsibility is constitutional convention in governments using the Westminster System that members of the Cabinet must publicly support all governmental decisions made in Cabinet, even if they do not privately agree with them....
. Traditionally, the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 has had a cabinet government - if, however, one subscribes to the view that the prime minister
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the political leader of the United Kingdom and the head of government Her Majesty's Government....
 has become dominant (as opposed to primus inter pares
Primus inter pares

Primus inter pares , the first among equals, or first among peers is a phrase which indicates that a person is the most senior of a group of people sharing the same rank or office....
) and often bypasses cabinet, the United Kingdom has become a country of prime ministerial government
Prime ministerial government

Prime ministerial government is a government where the prime minister is dominant in terms of the executive . As the prime minister is, by definition, a member of a Cabinet - this form of government is often a development from cabinet government....
. Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990....
 and Tony Blair
Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair is a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007....
 have both been credited with (or blamed for) the "presidentialisation
Presidential system

A presidential system is a system of government where an executive branch exists and presides separately from the legislature, to which it is not wikt:accountable and which cannot, in normal circumstances, wikt:dismiss it....
" of the prime minister due to their extensive use of bilateral meetings, Prime Minister's Office
Prime Minister's Office

The Prime Minister's Office is a small department which provides advice to a Prime Minister in some countries:* Office of the Prime Minister ...
 and their authority (from landslide victories
Landslide victory

In politics, a landslide victory is the victory of a candidate or political party by an overwhelming margin in an election....
).

In Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 cabinet government is the norm, with the Cabinet taking votes on many areas of policy, including much foreign policy. When Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon

is a former Israeli Prime Minister of Israel and military leader. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though he was unable to carry out his duties after suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006, when he fell into a coma and entered a persistent vegetative state....
 was Minister of National Infrastructure he was considered to be holding power on foreign affairs, and it is frequent for cabinet members with domestic portfolios (such as the Tourism Minister or the Education Minister) to resign over foreign policy issues.