Introduction -- Presidential, parliamentary, and mixed democracies -- Are the incentives for coalition formation different in parliamentary and presidential democracies? -- Are coalitions rare in presidential democracies? -- Party discipline and form of government -- What makes presidential democracies fragile? -- Conclusion
Summary
Are newly established presidential democracies doomed to fail? Advocates of parliamentarism point to the fact that these regimes tend to last longer than presidential ones in support of their positive answer to this question. This book takes a contrary view on this issue
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index