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Semi-presidentialism and Democratic Performance [PDF]
Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2008 AbstractThere is a long-standing and widespread consensus that semi-presidentialism is bad for democratic performance. This article examines whether there is empirical evidence to support the arguments against semi-presidentialism. Examining countries that are incompletely consolidated and yet are not autocratic, we identify the relationship between ...
Elgie, Robert, McMenamin, Iain
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PARLIAMENTARISM VERSUS SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM IN THE BALTIC STATES: THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DIFFERENCES IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS [PDF]
Baltic Journal of Political Science, 2013 Restoring their statehood in the early 1990s, Estonia and Latvia established parliamentary republics, while Lithuania opted for semi-presidentialism.
Zenonas Norkus
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Semi-Presidentialism: Concepts, Consequences and Contesting Explanations [PDF]
Political Studies Review, 2004 In contrast to the work on presidentialism and parliamentarism, semi-presidentialism remains very much the poor relation in the debate about regime types. This is true both in the sense that there is less work on semi-presidential regimes and also because of the fact that semi-presidentialism has few advocates. This review examines the existing work on
Elgie, Robert, Robert Elgie
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Duverger, Semi-presidentialism and the Supposed French Archetype [PDF]
West European Politics, 2009 The concept of semi-presidentialism was first operationalised by Maurice Duverger. There are now 17 countries with semi-presidential constitutions in Europe. Within this set of countries France is usually considered to be the archetypal example of semi-presidentialism.
Elgie, Robert, Robert Elgie
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Semi-presidentialism and democratisation in Poland [PDF]
, 2008 Polish semi-presidentialism evolved from a pacted transition between the leadership of the communist regime and the Solidarity opposition movement. The mechanics of semi-presidentialism, as well as its effect on democratisation, depend upon the constitution, the party system and the personality of the president.
McMenamin, Iain
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Towards Presidential Rule in Ukraine: Hybrid Regime Dynamics Under Semi-Presidentialism
Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2012 This article sets out to analyse recent regime developments in Ukraine in relation to semi-presidentialism. The article asks: to what extent and in what ways theoretical arguments against semi-presidentialism (premier-presidential and president ...
Sedelius Thomas, Berglund Sten
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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N
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Український соціум, 2021 The purpose of the study is to provide a comparative analysis of democratic leadership effectiveness in the relatively large presidential and semi-presidential countries of the world.
Tesfaiie L. A.
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Semi-Presidentialism and Democratic Development in East Asia
, 2020 East Asia contains three of the world s youngest semi-presidential democracies: Mongolia, Taiwan, and East Timor. In addition to having a semipresidential constitutional structure, each of these countries also represents a relatively unusual case of ...
Reilly, Benjamin
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The Convergence of Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in France: Analysis of Systemic Tendencies from the Perspective of Sixty Years of the Fifth Republic [PDF]
Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2019 The paper deals with specific links between presidential and parliamentary elections in contemporary France. The main goal is to demonstrate that the timing of the two types of political events is a significant factor preserving the configuration of a ...
Łukasz Jakubiak
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