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This book elaborates a theory of 'semi-parliamentary government', an often neglected form of government that instantiates the principle of the separation of pow

The presidential-parliamentary distinction is foundational to comparative politics and at the center of a large theoretical and empirical literature. However, a

This book questions the reasons why presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones.