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Semi-Presidentialism: Sub-Types and Democratic Performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. This study is one of the more extensive cross-country examinations of political outcomes in premier-presidential and president-parliamentary regimes. In line with theoretical expectations, Elgie’s findings confirm that president-parliamentary ...
Semi-presidential regimes can be viewed as a hybrid, sitting between parliamentary and presidential regimes. Even though they are ill defined, it is possible to can make some general observations. Basically, in semi-presidential regimes power is divided between the prime minister and the president, with both executives having political power.
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Maurice Duverger's original definition of semi-presidentialism stated that the president had to be elected, possess significant power, and serve for a fixed term. Modern definitions merely declare that the head of state has to be elected, and that a separate prime minister that is dependent on parliamentary confidence has to lead the legislative.
Jun 13, 2017 · The figures present the regression coefficients for the two types of semi-presidentialism and pure presidentialism, compared to parliamentarism, which constitutes the reference category. In the models, we include a number of control variables that have been shown to be important determinants of democratic performance.
- Thomas Sedelius, Jonas Linde
- 2018
Jun 28, 2018 · Using Witten/Herdecke University professor Nils-Christian Bormann and Penn State University professor Matt Golder ’s classification and supplementing the data with former Dublin City University professor Robert Elgie ’s list of semi-presidential countries, approximately 36 percent of democracies are parliamentary, 25 percent are presidential, and 39 percent are semi-presidential.
Jul 2, 2018 · Accordingly, studying incentives, intentions and the separation of powers, scholars employing this approach divided semi-presidentialism into the two subtypes of premier-presidentialism and president-parliamentarism. Within the dominant research themes, these subtypes of semi-presidentialism have been of considerable theoretical and empirical ...
Jan 9, 2013 · Intra-executive conflict and the two sub-types of semi-presidentialism. The data in Table 1 show that intra-executive conflict is a quite frequently occurring phenomenon of Central and East European semi-presidentialism. In all of our cases, the level of conflict has fluctuated over time, but each country has experienced high levels of conflict ...
