ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that the control and facilitation framework and the associated propositions and causal model can provide a more accurate description and a more powerful explanation of crucial aspects of the transformation of the "Westminster Model" than the descriptions and explanations provided in the existing literature. It examines significance for changes in internal functional subsystems and the distribution of power and influence in Anglophone African legislatures, and discusses the consequent changes in the functions which these legislatures perform for the societal political systems of which they are a part. Diffusion of Westminster type linkages to Africa and changes in these linkages through invention can be studied together with diffusion and invention of the structures themselves. Sang-Seek Park suggests that the studies be expanded by utilizing various indicators of institutionalization, scope of popular support, and separation of party and government to classify African political systems under civilian rule into four categories: party-dominant, government-dominant, party-government balanced, and party-government fused.
