Semi-presidentialism and democracy [electronic resource] / edited by Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup and Yu-Shan Wu.

"This book explores the effect of semi-presidentialism on newly-democratising countries. In recent years semi-presidentialism -- the situation where a constitution makes provision for both a directly elected president and a prime minister who is responsible to the legislature -- has become the...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors:	Elgie, Robert, Moestrup, Sophia, 1964-, Wu, Yushan, 1958-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Subjects:	Semi-presidential system. Presidents. Executive power. Prime ministers. Democracy. Comparative government. Representative government and representation.