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Which democracies in Southern Europe? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials. Barcelona, Catalunya   +1 more
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Semi-Presidentialism

2020
This chapter discusses semi-presidentialism, a relative newcomer to the disciplines of both comparative constitutional law and comparative politics. It first retraces the early transformation of the regime of the French Fifth Republic from parliamentary to semi-presidential regime.
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Government survival in semi‐presidential regimes

European Journal of Political Research, 2015
AbstractAs semi‐presidentialism has become increasingly common in European democracies, so have the debates about the consequences of several of its political and institutional features. In particular, in those regimes, cohabitation between presidents and cabinets of different parties and cabinet dismissal powers on the part of presidents are thought ...
Fernandes, Jorge, Magalhães, Pedro C.
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Semi-presidentialism in Azerbaijan

2016
LaPorte examines the dynamics of semi-presidentialism in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s regime is a curious hybrid, in which semi-presidential institutions operate in the larger context of authoritarianism. The author compares formal Constitutional provisions with the practice of politics in the country, suggesting that formal and informal sources of ...
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Semi-presidentialism in Armenia

2016
Markarov discusses the formation and development of the semi-presidential system in Armenia since its foundation in 1991. The author identifies and compares the formal powers of the president, prime minister, and parliament under the 1995 Constitution as well as the amendments introduced through the Constitutional referendum in 2005.
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Duverger's concept: Semi–presidential government revisited

European Journal of Political Research, 1998
Abstract The article attempts to follow up the fate of the concept Maurice Duverger created to explain the regime of the French Fifth Republic: semi–presidential government. Duverger expounded the concept in his fundamental book Échec au roi in 1978, trying to illustrate the fact that regimes of this type worked quite differently in the seven Western ...
Horst Bahro   +2 more
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Clustering of Semi-Presidentialism

2011
Semi-presidentialism is a constitutional system that combines the core features of presidentialism and parliamentarism. It has a popularly elected president and a government headed by a prime minister who is responsible to the parliament. It was a phenomenon originally confined to Western Europe.
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Weaker Presidents, Better Semi-presidentialism?

2016
Elgie and Moestrup summarize the findings from a collection of case studies of countries with semi-presidential institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus. The authors justify the study of institutions both generally and in the context of an often authoritarian system of patronal presidents in the post-Soviet space.
Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup
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Semi-Presidentialism in Europe

1999
AbstractSemi‐presidentialism is an increasingly popular form of constitutional government. Semi‐presidential regimes can now be found in Western Europe, in Austria, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, and Portugal, in Central and Eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, and Ukraine; in Asia, in places such as ...
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