Information: - Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy. Governments (the equivalent of the executive branch) in Westminster democracies are responsible to parliament rather than to the monarch, or, in a colonial context, to the imperial government, and in a republican context, to the president, either in full or in part. If the parliament is bicameral, then the government is responsible first to the parliament's lower house, which is more numerous, always directly elected and thus more representative than the upper house. Responsible government of parliamentary accountability manifests itself in several ways. Ministers account to Parliament for their decisions and for the performance of their departments. This requirement to make announcements and to answer questions in Parliament means that ministers have to have the privileges of the "floor" which are only granted to those who are members of either house of Parliament. Secondly, and most importantly, although ministers are officially appointed by the authority of the head of state and can theoretically be dismissed at the pleasure of the sovereign, they concurrently retain their office subject to their holding the confidence of the lower house of Parliament. When the lower house has passed a motion of no confidence in the government, the government must immediately resign or submit itself to the electorate in a new general election. - The Nova Scotia Legislature, formally, known as the General Assembly, consists of the Crown represented by a Lieutenant Governor and the House of Assembly, is the legislative branch of the provincial government of Nova Scotia, Canada. The assembly is the oldest in Canada, having first sat in 1758, and in 1848 was the site of the first responsible government in the British Empire. - Keith Leslie Bain ( born October 24 , 1952 ) is a Canadian politician . He represented the electoral district of Victoria - The Lakes in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2006 to 2013 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives . Bain first ran for provincial politics in the 2003 election , but was defeated by Liberal Gerald Sampson . Bain was elected in the 2006 provincial election , defeating Sampson by over 700 votes . He was re-elected in the 2009 election . He was defeated by Liberal Pam Eyking when he ran for re-election in 2013 . - Nova Scotia (Latin for "New Scotland"; French: "Nouvelle-Ecosse") is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces, and one of the four provinces which form Atlantic Canada. Its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is Canada's second-smallest province, with an area of , including Cape Breton and another 3,800 coastal islands. As of 2011, the population was 921,727, making Nova Scotia the second most-densely populated province in Canada with almost . - VictoriaThe Lakes is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'position held' with the subject 'keith bain'. Choices: - 3 - executive branch - governor - lieutenant governor - member of the nova scotia house of assembly - nova scotia house of assembly - sovereign
member of the nova scotia house of assembly

Information: - Comparative politics is a field in political science, characterized by an empirical approach based on the "comparative method". In other words, comparative politics is the study of the domestic politics, political institutions, and conflicts of countries. It often involves comparisons among countries and through time within single countries, emphasizing key patterns of similarity and difference. Arend Lijphart argues that comparative politics does not have a "substantive" focus in itself, but rather a "methodological" one: it focuses on "the "how" but does not specify the "what" of the analysis." In other words, comparative politics is not defined by the object of its study, but rather by the method it applies to study political phenomena. Peter Mair and Richard Rose advance a slightly different definition, arguing that comparative politics is defined by a combination of a "substantive" focus on the study of countries' political systems and a "method" of identifying and explaining similarities and differences between these countries using common concepts. Rose states that, on his definition: "The focus is explicitly or implicitly upon more than one country, thus following familiar political science usage in excluding within-nation comparison. Methodologically, comparison is distinguished by its use of concepts that are applicable in more than one country." - Peter Mair (March 3, 1951 August 15, 2011) was an Irish political scientist. He was professor of Comparative Politics at the European University Institute in Florence. - Arend d'Angremond Lijphart (born 17 August 1936, Apeldoorn, Netherlands) is a political scientist specializing in comparative politics, elections and voting systems, democratic institutions, and ethnicity and politics. He received his PhD in Political Science at Yale University in 1963, after studying at Principia College from 1955 to 1958. He is currently Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Dutch by birth, he has spent most of his working life in the United States and is an American citizen. He has since regained his Dutch citizenship and is now a dual citizen of both the Netherlands and the United States. - Michael Gallagher is a political scientist . He is Professor of Comparative Politics and head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Dublin , Trinity College . Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'date of birth' with the subject 'michael gallagher '. Choices: - 15 - 17 - 17 august 1936 - 1951 - 3 - august 1936
1951