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Semi-Presidentialism

Robert Elgie
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      This book examines the relationship between semi-presidentialism and democratic performance. Semi-presidentialism - where a constitution provides for both a directly elected president and a prime minister and cabinet responsible to the legislature - has become the regime type of choice for new democracies. There are now over 50 countries in the world with a semi-presidential constitution and the vast majority of these countries have chosen this form of governmentsince the early 1990s. This book operationalises Shugart and Carey's distinction between president-parliamentarism - where the prime minister is responsible to both the legislature and to the directly elected president - and premier-presidentialism - where the prime minister is responsible to thelegislature alone. The book shows that, all else equal, the president-parliamentary sub-type is more likely to be associated with a poorer democratic performance than its premier-presidential counterpart. The evidence is based on a mixed-method approach, including large-n comparative statistical studies of all semi-presidential democracies since 1919, as well as in-depth case studies. Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Elgie EAN: 9780199585984 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 484 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-08-25 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration WIDTH: 170 cm SPINE:

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      Comparative politics, Political parties and party platforms, International institutions

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      Robert Elgie is the co-editor of the journal French Politics published by Palgrave and the co-editor of the Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science series. He has published extensively on comparative politics, semi-presidentialism and French politics. He is Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies at Dublin City University.
      This book examines the relationship between semi-presidentialism and democratic performance. Semi-presidentialism - where a constitution provides for both a directly elected president and a prime minister and cabinet responsible to the legislature - has become the regime type of choice for new democracies. There are now over 50 countries in the world with a semi-presidential constitution and the vast majority of these countries have chosen this form of governmentsince the early 1990s. This book operationalises Shugart and Carey's distinction between president-parliamentarism - where the prime minister is responsible to both the legislature and to the directly elected president - and premier-presidentialism - where the prime minister is responsible to thelegislature alone. The book shows that, all else equal, the president-parliamentary sub-type is more likely to be associated with a poorer democratic performance than its premier-presidential counterpart. The evidence is based on a mixed-method approach, including large-n comparative statistical studies of all semi-presidential democracies since 1919, as well as in-depth case studies. Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Elgie EAN: 9780199585984 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 484 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-08-25 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration WIDTH: 170 cm SPINE:

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      Comparative politics, Political parties and party platforms, International institutions

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      Robert Elgie is the co-editor of the journal French Politics published by Palgrave and the co-editor of the Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science series. He has published extensively on comparative politics, semi-presidentialism and French politics. He is Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies at Dublin City University.

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