Scope
The Instrument of Government (Swedish: Regeringsformen) - one of the Fundamental Laws of the Realm - sets out the responsibilities and duties of the Government, the Prime Minister and other Cabinet Ministers.
In a unique feature of the Swedish constitutional system, individual Cabinet Ministers do not bear any individual ministerial responsibility for the performance of the agencies within their portfolio (they formally report directly to the Government), and are prohibited to act unilaterally (thus the origin of the pejorative (in Swedish political parlance) term ministerstyre ) in matters handled by the individual agencies, unless specifically provided for in law.
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Famous quotes containing the word scope:
“Each man must have his “I;” it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)
“As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys—and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)
“The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old “laissez faire” school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)