Comparative perspectives
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Comparative perspectives
(The failure of presidential democracy / edited by Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela, v. 1)
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Citizens of the United States, heirs to two centuries of democratic government, tend to believe that presidentialism - rather than parliamentarism - is the political system that best ensures a stable democracy. In Latin America, however, where many governments have been modelled on that of the United States, presidentialism has had mixed success. In "The Failure of Presidential Democracy", Juan Linz and Arturo Valenzuela bring together leading scholars to examine the question of whether presidentialism or parliamentarism offers the best hope for stable government and democratic continuity.
Table of Contents
- Presidentialism and majoritarian democracy - theoretical observations, Arend Lijphart
- neither presidentialism nor parliamentarism, Giovanni Sartori
- presidentialism and parliamentarism in comparative perspective, Alfred Stepan and Cindy Skach
- presidentialism and political stability in France, Ezra N. Suleiman.
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