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Are Parliamentary Systems Better?
The Brookings Review, 198516 The Brookings Review Summer 1985 CR I T I C S of the American political system have repeatedly charged that its fragmentation of power makes it incapable of governing a modern society. The constitutional system of checks and balances and a weak party system, it is alleged, prevent the federal government from making decisive and rapid policy choices ?
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The Knesset: Israel's Parliamentary System
2023At midnight on May 14, 1948, the State of Israel came into existence following a decision of the United Nations on November 29, 1947, which called for the partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab State. The United Nations' resolution has however not been carried out according to the proposed partition plan.
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Candidate campaigning in parliamentary systems
Party Politics, 2013The individualization of politics is usually studied in relation to party leaders. Using new data from the Norwegian Candidate Survey 2009 and in-depth interviews with 29 top candidates, in this article we study whether candidates in the Norwegian 2009 parliamentary election ran party-centred or individualized campaigns.
Rune Karlsen, Eli Skogerbø
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Cabinet Decision-making in Parliamentary Systems
2020AbstractThis chapter deals with the internal decision-making process of political executives in parliamentary systems, that is, how executives take their own collective decisions. The focus is on the cabinet system as a whole, including both cabinet members and other involved party-political and bureaucratic actors.
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The monarchy in a parliamentary system
Res Publica, 1970A discussion of the political role of monarchs in contemporary Western Europe is complicated by three uncritical preconceptions : the traditionalist-monarchist view of Kings as transcendent sovereigns, the democratic-emancipatory view which assumes that Kings are by definition nothing but constitutional nonentities, and the media-view of members of a ...
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The Transformation of Mongolia's Political System: From Semi-parliamentary to Parliamentary?
Asian Survey, 2010This paper outlines Mongolia's regime transformation, focusing on its 2000 constitutional amendments that turned Mongolia into a parliamentary system, albeit with a popularly elected fixed-term president. The paper also emphasizes the prominence of institutional authority to form the executive in determining regime type, and makes an effort to clarify ...
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The Parliamentary and Presidential Systems
Public Administration Review, 1944whom, like Mr. Henry Hazlitt, he differs. My purpose is the very different one of attempting to annotate some of his conclusions, both on the British system and on the American-for, as it seems to me, his account of the first is hardly aware of the changing social order of which it is the expression; and his account of the second, if a foreigner may ...
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Problems with Parliamentary Systems
1994Since all democracies have a parliament, the problems that arise with parliamentary systems are not, in most instances, unique problems, problems that apply only to the parliament-centered polities. They are, however, problems that are more salient, or more thorny, in parliamentary than in other systems.
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The parliamentary system and direct democracy
European Review, 1998This paper considers the operation of representative democracy, with an emphasis on Germany. It analyses the implications of direct democracy (i.e. the regular use of referenda in reaching decisions on matters of public policy) for the operation of parliamentary and non-parliamentary democratic systems. The existing role of direct democracy in a number
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Developing a Parliamentary Seniority System
Problems of Post-Communism, 2011Slovenia made an early start establishing multiparty democracy, but its democratic political system will not be truly mature until a cohort of MPs with multiterm seniority has been able to institutionalize parliamentary traditions.
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