Semi-presidentialism and democracy

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 isresponsible to the legislature - has become the regime type of choice for many countries. ROBERT ELGIE Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. He is the co-editor of the Palgrave journal 'French Polit'ics and the co-editor of the Routledge/ECPR 'Studies in European Political Science' series. He has published extensively on comparative politics, semi-presidentialism and French politics. . SOPHIA MOESTRUP Senior Program Manager at the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Washington, DC, USA. She has served as country director in Niger for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is co-editor with Robert Elgie of 'Semi-presidentialism Outside Europ'e (2007) and 'Semi-presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe' (2008.). . YU-SHAN WU Distinguished Research Fellow and Director of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. He has authored six books and edited six others, and published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters, incomparative politics and international relations. INDICE: Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy; 'R.Elgie', 'S.Moestrup '& 'Y-S.Wu' - PART I: VARIETIES OF SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM - Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy: Institutional Choice, Performance and Evolution; 'R.Elgie' - The Study of Semi-Presidentialism: An Holistic Approach; 'Y-S.Wu' - PART II: THE PERFORMANCE OF SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM: GENERAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES - Overview of the Performance of Semi-Presidentialism; 'S.Moestrup' - Parliamentary Cohesion and Government Formation in Semi-Presidential Democracies; 'J-W.Lin' - Semi-Presidentialism in Western Europe; 'R.Elgie - 'Semi-Presidentialism under Post-Communism; 'O.Protsyk' - Semi-Presidentialism and Democratic Development in East Asia;' B.Reilly' - Semi-Presidentialism in Africa; Patterns and Trends; 'S.Moestrup' - PART III: THE PERFORMANCE OF SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM: COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES - The President as a Backseat Driver: Portugal's Evolving Semi-Presidentialism; 'C.Jalali' - Taiwan: Democratic Consolidation under Presidential Supremacy;' Y-S.Wu '& 'J-H.Tsai' - Semi-Presidentialism and Parliamentary Oligarchy in Post-Orange Ukraine; 'K.Matsuzato' - Moldova's Transition from Semi-Presidentialism: Parliamentary Intentions, Presidential Outcome; 'W.Crowther' - Semi-Presidentialism in the Weimar Republic: A Failed Attempt at Democracy; 'Y-C.Shen' - Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy: What Have we Learnt?; 'R.Elgie' -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24292-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido