What is generally regarded as the chief advantage of a parliamentary form of government over a presidential one?

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C. The executive remains continuously responsible and accountable to the legislature. The chief advantage of a parliamentary system is that the executive stays continuously responsible and accountable to the legislature, which can remove it through a no confidence motion whenever it loses the legislature's support. The executive and legislature do not function independently of each other in this system, nor is a parliamentary system inherently more administratively efficient, and the head of government can in fact be changed without a general election, exactly through such a no confidence motion. Hence option C correctly identifies the real advantage.

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A. The executive and the legislature function entirely independently of each other

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B. It is administratively more efficient than a presidential system

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C. The executive remains continuously responsible and accountable to the legislature

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D. The head of government cannot be changed without a general election