Complete the account of the central administration.
The head of government in Spain is the ______ of the Government, who is invested by the ______. Below the Minister and the Secretary of State, the senior official responsible for the ministry's internal management is the ______. The growth of the presidential entourage across parliamentary systems is usually called ______.
Word bank: President · Congress · Under-secretary · presidentialisation · King · Director-General
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- The second blank is the chamber that invests, not the one that appoints.
- The last blank names a change in practice rather than in law.
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The head of government in Spain is the President of the Government, who is invested by the Congress. Below the Minister and the Secretary of State, the senior official responsible for the ministry's internal management is the Under-secretary. The growth of the presidential entourage across parliamentary systems is usually called presidentialisation.
The last blank names something genuinely hard to govern. Presidentialisation is a change in resources, visibility and coordinating capacity, not in constitutional powers, so the accountability mechanisms designed for the formal office do not reach the enlarged one.
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