Westminsterský model: adaptace, či eroze?
The Westminster Model, Adaptation or Erosion?

Summary/Abstract: From the outset of the 1980s the Westminster model of government in the United Kingdom altered gradually. Many speak of a shift from government to governance. This process included widening of the number of players active in the political arena as well as overlapping of differences in the dichotomy of domestic and international politics. The study presents an analysis of the shift from government to governance – from a clear cut Westminster model to a complex structure of networks, dependency paths, relationships, and means of communication on different levels. The everyday working of those structures led many to interpret this gradual process as the erosion or the twilight of the traditional Westminster model. The paper attempts to suggest a possible answer to the question of how to characterize and what terminology to use in order to describe the changing reality of the British model of governing. Shall we simply speak of an erosion of the system, which would be a rather destructive conception, or shall we rather speak of an adaptation, as adaptation is highly significant for the British political system and carries in its roots the ability to accommodate changes as time goes by?

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