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Parliamentary versus Presidential Government Arend Lijphart (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego)

Parliamentary versus Presidential Government By Arend Lijphart (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego)

Summary

Parliamentary and presidential government are the two principal forms of modern democracy. This book contains the most important arguments concerning their respective merits by advocates and analysts from the mid-eighteenth to the late 20th century and from all parts of the world.

Parliamentary versus Presidential Government Summary

Parliamentary versus Presidential Government by Arend Lijphart (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego)

Parliamentary and presidential government, exemplified by the United Kingdom and most continental European countries on the one hand and the United States and Latin America on the other, are the two principal forms of democracy in the modern world. Their respective advantages and disadvantages have long been debated, at first mainly by British and American political observers, but with increasing frequency in other parts of the world too, especially in Latin America and Asia. The recent world-wide wave of democratization has intensified both the debate and its significance. This volume brings together the most important statements on the subject, by advocates and analysts from Montesquieu and Madison to Lipset and Linz. It also treats the merits of less frequently used democratic types, such as French-style semi-presidentialism, that may be regarded as intermediate forms between parliamentarism and presidentialism.

Parliamentary versus Presidential Government Reviews

'a useful text' Nevil Johnson, Nuffield College, Oxford, Political Studies, 1993
`The selected readings are worthy of what Lijphart describes as a `great debate'. The classics are here ... The collection is well rounded off by a debate on the relationship of institutional arrangements and practical outcomes, with Donald Horowitz and Seymour Lipset on the pitfalls of comparisons and the significance of political cultures. Nothing in the book is uninteresting.' Journal of Political Science
Should prove a valuable source not only for teaching purposes but for anyone who wishes to delve into this topic of longstanding debate but continuing relevance. * Australian Journal of International Affairs *

Table of Contents

I: British Parliamentarism versus US Presidentialism; Douglas V. Verney: Parliamentary Government and Presidential Government; Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws; James Madison: The Federalist No. 47 and No. 48; Alexander Hamilton: The Federalist No. 70; Robert A. Dahl: At the Convention: The Paucity of Models; Walter Bagehot: The English Constitution: The Cabinet; Woodrow Wilson: Committee or Cabinet Government?; Harold J. Laski: The President and Congress; Committee on the Constitutional System: A Bicentennial Analysis of the American Political Structure; Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.: Leave the Constitution alone; II: Presidentialism in Latin America: Simon Bolivar: The Angostura Address; Harry Kantor: Efforts made by various Latin American countries to limit the power of the President; Scott Mainwaring: Presidentialism in Latin America; Juan J. Linz: The perils of Presidentialism; Carlos Santiago Nino: Ideas and attempts at reforming the Presidentialist system of government in Latin America; Bolivar Lamounier: Presidentialism and Parliamentarism in Brazil; III: Semi-Presidentialism and Other Intermediate Forms: Charles de Gaulle: The Bayeux Manifesto; Maurice Duverger: A new political system model: Semi-presidential government; Woodrow Wilson: Cabinet government in the United States; A. Jeyaratnam Wilson: The Gaullist system in Asia: The constitution of Sri Lanka; Council for the Consolidation of Democracy: Constitutional reform in Argentina; Jean Blondel: Dual leadership in the contemporary world; Constitutional Reform Committee: Report on the 1848 Draft Constitution of Switzerland; Jose Batlle y Ordonez: A collegial executive for Uruguay; IV: Parliamentarism and Presidentialism in Africa, Asia, and Europe: Constitution Drafting Committee: Report on the Draft Constitution of Nigeria; Vasant Sathe: For a directly elected President of India; J.P.A. Gruijters: The case for a directly elected Prime Minister in the Netherlands; International Forum of the Israel Diaspora Institute: Direct election of the Prime Minister; V: Systematic Evidence: Broadly Comparative and Multivariate Analyses: Donald L. Horowitz: Comparing democratic systems; Seymour Martin Lipset: The centrality of political culture; Juan J. Linz: The virtues of Parliamentarism; Fred W. Riggs: Presidentialism: A problematic regime type; G. Bingham Powell Jr.: Contemporary democracies: Participation, stability, and violence; Thomas A. Baylis: Governing by committee: Collegial leadership in advanced societies.

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GOR005442464
9780198780441
0198780443
Parliamentary versus Presidential Government by Arend Lijphart (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego)
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Oxford University Press
1992-02-20
270
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