Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy

✍ Scribed by Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup, Yu-Shan Wu

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

✦ Synopsis

This book 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
1 Semi-Presidentialism: An Increasingly Common Constitutional Choice......Page 14
2 Clustering of Semi-Presidentialism: A First Cut Yu-Shan Wu......Page 34
3 Variation in the Durability of Semi- Presidential Democracies......Page 55
4 The Rules of Electoral Competition and the Accountability of Semi-Presidential Governments......Page 74
5 Semi-Presidentialism in Western Europe......Page 94
6 Semi-Presidentialism under Post- Communism......Page 111
7 Semi-Presidentialism and Democratic Development in East Asia......Page 130
8 Semi-Presidentialism in Africa: Patterns and Trends......Page 147
9 The President is Not a Passenger: Portugal’s Evolving Semi-Presidentialism......Page 169
10 Taiwan: Democratic Consolidation under President-Parliamentarism......Page 187
11 Disintegrated Semi-Presidentialism and Parliamentary Oligarchy in Post-Orange Ukraine......Page 205
12 Semi- Presidentialism and Moldova’s Flawed Transition to Democracy......Page 223
13 Semi-Presidentialism in the Weimar Republic: A Failed Attempt at Democracy......Page 242
14 Haiti: Semi-Presidentialism in a Fractured Society......Page 259
15 Semi-Presidentialism: What Have We Learned?......Page 277
Bibliography......Page 288
Index......Page 306