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The purpose of the paper is to analyze the relationship between the executive and legislative branches from the comparison between the presidential system adopted in Brazil and the semi-presidential system in force in Portugal.
Maria de Nazareth Oliveira Maciel +1 more
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Semi-Presidential Systems: Dual Executive And Mixed Authority Patterns [PDF]
Maurice Duverger in 1980 advanced the concept of a ‘semi-presidential’ regime: a mix of a popularly elected and powerful presidency with a prime minister heading a cabinet subject to assembly confidence. We can understand the performance of these regimes through a neo-Madisonian perspective that stresses agency relations between institutional actors ...
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The article refers to the impact of the proximity of the presidential and parliamentary elections on the political composition of the chambers of the French parliament, as well as on their functioning in the framework of rationalized parliamentarianism ...
Łukasz Jakubiak
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On the Evasion of Executive Term Limits [PDF]
Executive term limits are pre-commitments through which the polity restricts its ability to retain a popular executive down the road. But in recent years, many presidents around the world have chosen to remain in office even after their initial maximum ...
Elkins, Zachary +2 more
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France: stacking the deck [PDF]
This chapter examines the two-ballot electoral system in France. The main focus is on the system used for elections to the lower house of the French parliament, the National Assembly.
Elgie, Robert
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Semi-presidentialism and democratisation in Poland [PDF]
Polish semi-presidentialism evolved from a pacted transition between the leadership of the communist regime and the Solidarity opposition movement.
McMenamin, Iain
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“Software agents and haunted media : the twitter bot as political actor" [PDF]
This report examines the rhetorical construction of Twitter bots as nonhuman political agents in press coverage of the 2016 U.S. election. It takes the rhetorical framing of “the Twitter bot” as a case study to argue that Twitter bots are a contemporary ...
Colclough, Sarah Ansley
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Powers of the President in the Romanian Semi-Presidential System. Critical Features [PDF]
Abstract In Romania, a semi-presidential system characterized by an exaltation of the powers of the President of the Republic, there would be critical observations to be reported in relation to this institution. More precisely, it refers to the constitutional provisions which weaken the President among the political institutions and ...
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ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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A POLITICAL MARKETING APPROACH REGARDING THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM IN ROMANIA [PDF]
From this systemic perspective, it is revealed once again the importance of voting as a regulator factor of functioning democracy. Loop control are more evident during the election campaign and has become a common fact that in an election year the ...
GABRIEL DINU, LOREDANA DINU
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