<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-15 11:11 GMT+01:00 Matthijs Melissen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@matthijsmelissen.nl" target="_blank">info@matthijsmelissen.nl</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id=":13j" class="" style="overflow:hidden">Basically you are saying that the English term matches the definition<br>
correctly, but that there exists a near-synonym in Germany that does<br>
not match the definition. I don't think that's enough reason to change<br>
the tag (or its definition).<div class=""><div id=":10l" class="" tabindex="0"></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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" ;-)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system</a> ), the term can refer to both, legislation and the executive branch.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Martin<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">See also here for reference: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers#Comparison_between_tripartite_and_bipartite_national_systems">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers#Comparison_between_tripartite_and_bipartite_national_systems</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>