2016-02-15 11:11 GMT+01:00 Matthijs Melissen <[email protected]>:
> Basically you are saying that the English term matches the definition > correctly, but that there exists a near-synonym in Germany that does > not match the definition. I don't think that's enough reason to change > the tag (or its definition). > No, I say that there are 2 principal meanings / usages in English for the term "government", one corresponding to the German usage, and one not, and that this fact alone makes a different name for the tag desirable. Germany was just an example, and of course there is a term for all branches together in German (de: "Staatsgewalt"), and if I were to find a system that fitted particularly well for Germany, I'd insist on distinguishing "Ämter" from "Behörden" ;-) I guess the actual interpretation of the term "government" will heavily depend on how the governance is organized, so I am not surprised that in the UK which doesn't implement a strong separation of powers (legislative and executive powers are intermingled, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system ), the term can refer to both, legislation and the executive branch. Cheers, Martin See also here for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers#Comparison_between_tripartite_and_bipartite_national_systems
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