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Unpacking Semi-Presidentialism: Government performance and democracy in four different regime types
Dalarna University, School of Education, Health and Social Studies, Political Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6594-5804
Universitetet i Bergen.
2016 (English)In: Swepsa 2016, 2016Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Semi-presidentialism has become a widespread choice among constitution makers around the world. Elgie (1999) defines semi-presidentialism as a system where the constitution includes both a popularly elected president and a prime minister and cabinet accountable to the parliament. With his inclusive definition there are 53 countries with a semi-presidential constitution. The aim of this paper is two-folded. First, we want to demonstrate the empirically value of using the distinction between the two sub-types of semi-presidentialism, i.e. between premier-presidential and president-parliamentary regimes. Second, by using indicators on regime performance and democracy from the QoG dataset on 173 countries, we examine the performance records of premier-presidential and president-parliamentary regimes. This is done in relation to parliamentarism and presidentialism. We find a manifest difference between the two sub-types of semi-presidentialism. While premier-presidential regimes have performance records close to parliamentary regimes, president-parliamentary regimes display performance records more similar to pure presidentialism, and it performs even worse on most indicators.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2016.
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Political Science
Research subject
Intercultural Studies, Semipresidentialism och regeringskapacitet i transitionsländer
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-23267OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-23267DiVA, id: diva2:1039234
Conference
SWEPSA, Uppsala University, Visby, 19-21 oktober 2016
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2014-1260Available from: 2016-10-21 Created: 2016-10-21 Last updated: 2021-11-12Bibliographically approved

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