Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy

2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-24292-0
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Explores the effect of semi-presidentialism on newly-democratising countries. In recent years semi-presidentialism - the situation where a constitution makes provision for both a directly elected president and a prime minister who is responsible to the legislature - has become the regime type of choice for many countries.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moestrup, Sophia

Elgie, R.

Wu, Y.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy; R.Elgie, S.Moestrup & Y-S.Wu PART I: VARIETIES OF SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy: Institutional Choice, Performance and Evolution; R.Elgie The Study of Semi-Presidentialism: An Holistic Approach; Y-S.Wu PART II: THE PERFORMANCE OF SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM: GENERAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES Overview of the Performance of Semi-Presidentialism; S.Moestrup Parliamentary Cohesion and Government Formation in Semi-Presidential Democracies; J-W.Lin Semi-Presidentialism in Western Europe; R.Elgie Semi-Presidentialism under Post-Communism; O.Protsyk Semi-Presidentialism and Democratic Development in East Asia; B.Reilly Semi-Presidentialism in Africa; Patterns and Trends; S.Moestrup PART III: THE PERFORMANCE OF SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM: COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES The President as a Backseat Driver: Portugal's Evolving Semi-Presidentialism; C.Jalali Taiwan: Democratic Consolidation under Presidential Supremacy; Y-S.Wu & J-H.Tsai Semi-Presidentialism and Parliamentary Oligarchy in Post-Orange Ukraine; K.Matsuzato Moldova's Transition from Semi-Presidentialism: Parliamentary Intentions, Presidential Outcome; W.Crowther Semi-Presidentialism in the Weimar Republic: A Failed Attempt at Democracy; Y-C.Shen Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy: What Have we Learnt?; R.Elgie

Über Autor(innen)

WILLIAM CROWTHER Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Director of the UNCG Center for Legislative Studies, USA
CARLOS JALALI Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal
JIH-WEN LIN Research Fellow in the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, Taiwan
KIMITAKA MATSUZATO, Professor at the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan
OLEH PROTSYK Senior Research Associate at European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany.

BENJAMIN REILLY Professor of Political Science in the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, Australia
PETRA SCHLEITER Tutorial Fellow in Politics (St Hilda's College), and Lecturer in Politics (Department of Politics and International Relations), University of Oxford, UK
YU-CHUNG SHEN Assistant Professor at Tunghai University, Taiwan
JUNG-HSIANG TSAI Assistant Professor at National Chung Cheng University, Political Science Department, Taiwan