what is collective responsibility? 200 words
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Collective responsibility refers to responsibilities of organizations, groups and societies. Part of it is the concept known as collective guilt by which individuals who are part of such collectives to be responsible for other people's actions and occurrences by tolerating, ignoring, or harboring them, without actively engaging.
Responsibility of every member of a group without regard to an individual member's participation in decision making and his or her position or rank. See also consensus and doctrine of individual responsibility.
One of the important features of Parliamentary Government (Cabinet Government) is the principle of collective responsibility. It means that the Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the Parliament. Once a decision is taken in the Cabinet, all the ministers become equally responsible to defend that decision.
If a minister is not willing to own responsibility for a decision taken by the Cabinet, the only course open to him is to resign. If the policy of the government is criticised in the Parliament, it is the responsibility of all the ministers to defend it and answer the criticism.
If the House of the People passes a vote of no-confidence against the policy of the government or even one minister, it is considered a vote of no-confidence against the entire Council of Ministers and in that case the entire Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister has to resign. The ministers swim or sink together.