Title Presidents, parties, and prime ministers : how the separation of powers affects party organization and behavior / David J. Samuels, Matthew S. Shugart

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 295 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Democracies with Elected Presidents Are Now in the Majority -- The Comparative Study of Political Parties and the Missing Variable of Regime-Type -- Clues from Existing Research -- "Presidentialized" versus "Parliamentarized" Parties Outline of the Book -- Political Parties in the Neo-Madisonian Theoretical Framework -- Parties in the Neo-Madisonian Framework -- Situating Parties Within the Separation of Powers -- President-Party Relationships under Semi-Presidentialism -- Party Dilemmas Under the Separation of Powers -- Conclusion -- Appendix 2A: Cohabitation in Semi-Presidential Systems-Cases and Data -- Insiders and Outsiders: Madison's Dilemma and Leadership Selection -- Defining Insiders and Outsiders -- Insiders Versus Outsiders: Hypotheses -- Career Paths of Insiders and Outsiders -- Limits of Presidentialization in Hybrid Regimes -- Conclusion -- Appendix 3A: Constructing the Database on Leaders' Career Paths -- Constitutional Design and Intraparty Leadership Accountability -- Firing Party Agents under Parliamentarism -- Firing Prime Ministers under Semi-Presidentialism -- Firing a Directly Elected President -- Conclusion -- Electoral Separation of Purpose within Political parties Electoral Separation of purpose: The Physical Separation of Votes -- Sources of Variation in Electoral Separation of Purpose -- Measuring Electoral Separation of Purpose -- Illustrative Examples of Electoral Separation of Purpose -- The Global Extent of Electoral Separation of Purpose Conclusion -- Appendix 5A: Sources for District-Level Electoral Data -- Appendix 5B: Countries and Election Included -- The Impact of Constitutional Reforms and Expectations for Party Adaptation -- Presidentialized Parties in France -- Presidentialized Parties in Israel -- Conclusion -- Parties' "Presidential Dilemas" in Brazil and Mexico -- Presidential Dilemmas in Brazilian Parties -- Presidential Dilemmas in Mexican Parties -- Conclusion -- Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Mandate Representation -- Parties, Presidents, and Political Representation -- Policy-Switching or mandate Representation: A Global Exploration -- Conclusion -- Semi-Presidentialism Is More Presidential Than Parliamentary -- Pure Types and Hybrids: Implications of Trends in Constitutional Desing -- The Research Agenda Summary This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on party politics. Conventional political science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible without political parties, because parties fulfil all the key functions of democratic governance. They nominate candidates, coordinate campaigns, aggregate interests, formulate and implement policy, and manage government power. When scholars first asserted the essential connection between parties and democracy, most of the world's democracies were parliamentary. Yet by the dawn of the twenty-first century, most democracies had directly elected presidents. David J. Samuels and Matthew S. Shugart provide a theoretical framework for analyzing variation in the relationships among presidents, parties, and prime ministers across the world's democracies, revealing the important ways that the separation of powers alters party organization and behavior - thereby changing the nature of democratic representation and accountability Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and index Notes Print version record Subject Separation of powers -- Cross-cultural studies Heads of state -- Cross-cultural studies Political parties -- Cross-cultural studies Democracy -- Cross-cultural studies POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties. Democracy Heads of state Political parties Separation of powers Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies Form Electronic book Author Shugart, Matthew Soberg, 1960- LC no. 2009038313 ISBN 9780511776298 0511776292 9780511773716 0511773714 9780511780882 0511780885

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