Robert Elgie / Sophia Moestrup (eds.)

Semi-Presidentialism Outside Europe

A Comparative Study
Herausgeber: Elgie, Robert; Moestrup, Sophia

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first academic study of the impact of semi-presidentialism in emerging democracies outside of Europe. Semi-presidentialism is where there is both a directly-elected fixed-term president and a prime minister who is responsible to the legislature. For the most part, semi-presidentialism is seen as being a risky choice for new democracies because it can create potentially destabilizing competition between the president and prime minister. And yet, there are now more than fifty semi-presidential countries in the world. Moreover, many of these countries are in Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia, often in places where democracy has yet to establish a firm foundation. This study begins with a chapter that discusses the advantages and disadvantages of semi-presidentialism and provides the theoretical framework for a wide-ranging series of country chapters presented in the second part of the book. Written by country/area specialists, the case studies highlight the political processes at work in young semi-presidential democracies. Semi-Presidentialism Outside Europe will appeal to those researching and studying in the fields of comparative politics, development and democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9780415380478
• ISBN-10: 0415380472
• Artikelnr.: 22583130

Autorenporträt

Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup

Inhaltsangabe

1. What Is Semi
Presidentialism and Where is it Found? Robert Elgie 2. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Semi
Presidentialism: A West European Perspective Gianfranco Pasquino 3. Semi
Presidentialism in Young Democracies
Help or Hindrance? Sophia Moestrup 4. Semi
Presidentialism in a Post
Communist Context François Frison
Roche 5. Semi
Presidentialism in a Francophone Context Gérard Conac 6. Semi
Presidentialism in Madagascar Charles Cadoux 7. Semi
Presidentialism in Niger: Gridlock and Democratic Breakdown
Learning From Past Mistakes Sophia Moestrup 8. Semi
Presidentialism and the Preservation of Ambiguity in Post
War Mozambique Carrie Manning 9. Semi
Presidentialism in Guinea Bissau: The Lesser of Two Evils? Elisabete Azevedo and Lia Nijzink 10. Eurasian Semi
Presidentialism: The Development of Kyrgyzstan's Model of Government Eugene Huskey 11. Semi
Presidentialism in Mongolia: Trade
Offs Between Stability and Governance Sophia Moestrup and Gombosurengiin Ganzorig 12. Semi
Presidentialism
Easy to Choose, Difficult to Operate: The Case of Taiwan Yu
Shan Wu 13. Timor
Leste: Semi
Presidentialism and the Democratic Transition in a New, Small State Dennis Shoesmith 14. The Choice of Semi
Presidentialism and its Consequences Sophia Moestrup