 PresidentialismGiovanni Sartori
Chapter 5 in Comparative Constitutional Engineering, 1994, pp 83-100 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Just as electoral systems are divided into majoritarian and proportional, so are democratic political systems generally divided into presidential and parliamentary. However, the latter distinction is more difficult to draw than the former one. Sure, presidential and parliamentary systems can be defined by mutual exclusion. Sure, a presidential system is non-parliamentary and, conversely, a parliamentary system is non-presidential. But the distribution of the real world cases into these two classes obtains impermissible bedfellows. The reason for this is, on the one hand, that presidential systems are for the most part inadequately defined; and, on the other hand, that parliamentary systems differ so widely among themselves as to render their common name a misnomer for a deceitful togetherness. We shall look into this later. Here, and first, we are required to define presidential systems and thereby to make sure that they are not confused with facade presidential forms or erroneously perceived as mixes, as quasi- or near-parliamentary presidentialisms. Keywords: Presidential System; Party System; Electoral College; American System; Parliamentary System (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-22861-4_5 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22861-4_5 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in International Economic Association Series from Palgrave Macmillan |
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