Doctine of the mandate


	Doctine of the mandate
	Advantages It grants clear authority to an incoming government and so strengthens its legitimacy. It allows parliament and the voters to judge the performance of government effectively It demonstrates clearly when a government may be overstepping its elective authority	Disadvantages Parties in the UK today are always elected with less than 5-% of the popular vote, so their mandate can be called into question Those who voted for the governing party do not necessarily support all its manifesto commitments It is not clear whether the government has a mandate to carry out its policies not contained in its last election manifesto.
	Evaluation

It grants clear authority to an incoming government and so strengthens its legitimacy.
It allows parliament and the voters to judge the performance of government effectively
It demonstrates clearly when a government may be overstepping its elective authority

Parties in the UK today are always elected with less than 5-% of the popular vote, so their mandate can be called into question
Those who voted for the governing party do not necessarily support all its manifesto commitments
It is not clear whether the government has a mandate to carry out its policies not contained in its last election manifesto.

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