Coalitional Presidentialism In Comparative Perspective

Author : Paul Chaisty,Nic Cheeseman,Timothy J. Power
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198817208

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This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism. Drawing on original research of minority presidents in the democratising and hybrid regimes of Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine, it seeks to understand how presidents who lack single party legislative majorities build and manage cross-party support in legislative assemblies. It develops a framework for analysing this phenomenon, and blends data from MP surveys, detailed case studies, and wider legislative and political contexts, to analyse systematically the tools that presidents deploy to manage their coalitions. The authors focus on five key legislative, cabinet, partisan, budget, and informal (exchange of favours) tools that are utilised by minority presidents. They contend that these constitute the 'toolbox' for coalition management, and argue that minority presidents will act with imperfect or incomplete information to deploy tools that provide the highest return of political support with the lowest expenditure of political capital. In developing this analysis, the book assembles a set of concepts, definitions, indicators, analytical frameworks, and propositions that establish the main parameters of coalitional presidentialism. In this way, Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective provides crucial insights into this mode of governance. Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066426360

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Author : Paul Chaisty,Nic Cheeseman,Timothy J. Power
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192549242

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Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective by Paul Chaisty,Nic Cheeseman,Timothy J. Power Pdf

This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism. Drawing on original research of minority presidents in the democratising and hybrid regimes of Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine, it seeks to understand how presidents who lack single party legislative majorities build and manage cross-party support in legislative assemblies. It develops a framework for analysing this phenomenon, and blends data from MP surveys, detailed case studies, and wider legislative and political contexts, to analyse systematically the tools that presidents deploy to manage their coalitions. The authors focus on five key legislative, cabinet, partisan, budget, and informal (exchange of favours) tools that are utilised by minority presidents. They contend that these constitute the 'toolbox' for coalition management, and argue that minority presidents will act with imperfect or incomplete information to deploy tools that provide the highest return of political support with the lowest expenditure of political capital. In developing this analysis, the book assembles a set of concepts, definitions, indicators, analytical frameworks, and propositions that establish the main parameters of coalitional presidentialism. In this way, Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective provides crucial insights into this mode of governance. Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

Author : Jose Antonio Cheibub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521542448

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Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy by Jose Antonio Cheibub Pdf

This book questions the reasons why presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones.

Author : Robert Elgie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191522536

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Divided Government in Comparative Perspective by Robert Elgie Pdf

Divided government occurs when the executive fails to enjoy majority support in at least one working house of the legislature. To date, the study of divided government has focused almost exclusively on the United States. However, divided government occurs much more widely. It occurs in other presidential systems. Moreover, it is also the equivalent of minority government in parliamentary regimes and cohabitation in French-style semi-presidential systems. This book examines the frequency, causes and management of divided government in comparative context, identifying the similarities and differences between the various experiences of this increasingly frequent form of government. The countries studied include Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Poland, and the US.

Author : M. Melo,C. Pereira
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137310842

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Making Brazil Work by M. Melo,C. Pereira Pdf

This book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil's recent rise. Using Brazil as a case study in multiparty presidentialism, the authors argue that Brazil's success stems from the combination of a constitutionally strong president and a robust system of checks and balances.

Author : Michael L. Mezey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 1626371644

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Presidentialism by Michael L. Mezey Pdf

In countries as diverse as Brazil, Ecuador, France, Russia, South Africa, and the United States, presidents have come to dominate the politics and political cultures of their nations. Here the author offers a comprehensive cross-national study of the presidency, tracing the historical and intellectual roots of executive power and exploring in detail the contemporary forces that have driven a turn toward "presidentialism."--Publisher's website.

Author : Steffen Ganghof
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192897145

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Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism by Steffen Ganghof Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In a democracy, a constitutional separation of powers between the executive and the assembly may be desirable, but the constitutional concentration of executive power in a single human being is not. Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism defends this thesis and explores 'semi-parliamentary government' as an alternative to presidential government. Semi-parliamentarism avoids power concentration in one person by shifting the separation of powers into the democratic assembly. The executive becomes fused with only one part of the assembly, even though the other part has at least equal democratic legitimacy and robust veto power on ordinary legislation. The book identifies the Australian Commonwealth and Japan as well as the Australian states of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia as semi-parliamentary systems. Using data from 23 countries and six Australian states, it maps how parliamentary and semi-parliamentary systems balance competing visions of democracy; it analyzes patterns of electoral and party systems, cabinet formation, legislative coalition-building, and constitutional reforms; systematically compares the semi-parliamentary and presidential separation of powers; and develops new and innovative semi-parliamentary designs, some of which do not require two separate chambers.

Author : Manuel Alcántara,Jean Blondel,Jean-Louis Thiébault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351622707

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Presidents and Democracy in Latin America by Manuel Alcántara,Jean Blondel,Jean-Louis Thiébault Pdf

This new textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the presidents and presidential leadership in Latin America. Unlike other texts, Presidents and Democracy in Latin America integrates both political analysis and major theoretical perspectives with extensive country-specific material. Part One examines the developments in recent years in Latin American presidentialism and identifies different characteristics of society and politics which have influenced Latin American governments. The personalization of political life and of presidential government help to illustrate the character of Latin American politics, specifically on the type of political career of those who occupied the presidential office, the leadership style of these presidents and the type of government which they led. Part Two studies two presidents in each of six countries in the region which reflect the broad trends in the political and electoral life: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. Each case study first provides the biographical background of the president; it outlines the political career of the president both inside and outside of a party, including at the local level; the popularity of the president at the time of the presidential election is given, as well as the mode of selection of the candidates (selection by party leaders only, by party members or by a primary). The relation of the president with the government or ministers, especially if there is a coalition government, is detailed. This textbook will be essential reading for all students of Latin American Politics and is highly recommended for those studying executive politics, political leadership, and the state of democratic governance in Latin America.

Author : David Fortunato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108834803

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The Cycle of Coalition by David Fortunato Pdf

Presents a theory and analysis of the relationship between parties and voters throughout the legislative period under coalition governance.

Author : Matthew Soberg Shugart,John M. Carey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521429900

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Presidents and Assemblies by Matthew Soberg Shugart,John M. Carey Pdf

In recent years renewed attention has been directed to the importance of the role of institutional design in democratic politics. Particular interest has concerned constitutional design and the relative merits of parliamentary versus presidential systems. In this book, the authors systematically assess the strengths and weaknesses of various forms of presidential systems, drawing on recent developments in the theoretical literature about institutional design and electoral rules. They develop a typology of democratic regimes structured around the separation of powers principle, including two hybrid forms, the premier-presidential and president-parliamentary systems, and they evaluate a number of alternative ways of balancing powers between the branches within these basic frameworks. They also demonstrate that electoral rules are critically important in determining how political authority is exercised.

Author : Scott Mainwaring,Matthew Soberg Shugart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521576148

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Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America by Scott Mainwaring,Matthew Soberg Shugart Pdf

Addressing the current debate regarding the liabilities and merits of presidential government, this work asks: does presidentialism make it less likely that democratic governments will be able to manage political conflict, as many prominent scholars have argued? With the unprecedented wave of transitions to democracy since the 1970s, this question has been hotly contested in political and intellectual circles all over the globe. The contributors to this volume examine variations among different presidential systems and sceptically view claims that presidentialism has added significantly to the problems of democratic governance and stability. The contributors argue that presidential systems vary in important ways, mostly according to the constitutional powers accorded to the president to affect legislation and the degree to which presidents parties control legislative majorities.

Author : Tom Ginsburg,Rosalind Dixon
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780857931214

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Comparative Constitutional Law by Tom Ginsburg,Rosalind Dixon Pdf

This landmark volume of specially commissioned, original contributions by top international scholars organizes the issues and controversies of the rich and rapidly maturing field of comparative constitutional law. Divided into sections on constitutional design and redesign, identity, structure, individual rights and state duties, courts and constitutional interpretation, this comprehensive volume covers over 100 countries as well as a range of approaches to the boundaries of constitutional law. While some chapters reference the text of legal instruments expressly labeled constitutional, others focus on the idea of entrenchment or take a more functional approach. Challenging the current boundaries of the field, the contributors offer diverse perspectives - cultural, historical and institutional - as well as suggestions for future research. A unique and enlightening volume, Comparative Constitutional Law is an essential resource for students and scholars of the subject.

Author : Miloš Brunclík,Michal Kubát
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351680028

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Semi-presidentialism, Parliamentarism and Presidents by Miloš Brunclík,Michal Kubát Pdf

The book analyzes the presidencies of three neighboring Central European countries – Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia – in the context of their interactions with cabinets (and prime ministers), parliaments and the constitutional courts, all which have proved crucial actors in the region’s political and constitutional battles. Using both institutional and behavioral perspectives along with an innovative definition of semi-presidentialism, the book argues that presidential powers – rather than the mode of the election of the president – are crucial to the functioning of the regimes and their classification into distinctive regime types. Focusing on intra-executive conflicts and the interaction of the president with other constitutional players it argues that, regardless of the mode of the election of the president, regimes have traditionally been very similar not only in their institutional settings, but also in the way they function. Finally, it shows that Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia should be classified as parliamentary regimes. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and East Europe studies/politics, post-Communist studies, presidential studies and more broadly to political elites and institutions, comparative politics and legislative studies.

Author : Kurt von Mettenheim
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801853141

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Presidential Institutions and Democratic Politics by Kurt von Mettenheim Pdf

While many comparative analysts see parliamentary government as essential for stable democracy, this volume argues that the American presidential system that separates and diffuses power can provide new perspectives for those building democratic institutions in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the new republics of the former Soviet Union. The authors recognize risks of rigidity, gridlock, and excessive centralization in presidential institutions. But they also emphasize the unexpected levels of legislative productivity during periods of divided government, the dramatic reversal of declining popularity by Presidents Reagan and Clinton, and the importance of direct appeals by presidents to the nation. After examining the American presidential system, the authors focus on the de-facto separation of powers in European parliaments and presidentialism in France, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Both trends in European parliamentary systems and the dramatic changes within French presidential institutions suggest that scholars should temper broad generalizations about presidential or parliamentary government.