Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy

✍ Scribed by Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup, Wu Yu-Shan (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 309
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Semi-Presidentialism....Pages 1-20
Clustering of Semi-Presidentialism....Pages 21-41
Variation in the Durability of Semi-Presidential Democracies....Pages 42-60
The Rules of Electoral Competition and the Accountability of Semi-Presidential Governments....Pages 61-80
Semi-Presidentialism in Western Europe....Pages 81-97
Semi-Presidentialism under Post-Communism....Pages 98-116
Semi-Presidentialism and Democratic Development in East Asia....Pages 117-133
Semi-Presidentialism in Africa....Pages 134-155
The President is Not a Passenger....Pages 156-173
Taiwan....Pages 174-191
Disintegrated Semi-Presidentialism and Parliamentary Oligarchy in Post-Orange Ukraine....Pages 192-209
Semi-Presidentialism and Moldova’s Flawed Transition to Democracy....Pages 210-228
Semi-Presidentialism in the Weimar Republic....Pages 229-245
Haiti....Pages 246-263
Semi-Presidentialism....Pages 264-274
Back Matter....Pages 275-296

✦ Subjects

European Union Politics; Comparative Politics; Democracy; Political Science

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