Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy

WILLIAM CROWTHER Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Director of the UNCG Center for Legislative Studies, USA CARLOS JALALI Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal JIH-WEN LIN Research Fellow in the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, Taiwan KIMITAKA MATSUZATO, Professor at the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan OLEH PROTSYK Senior Research Associate at European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany. BENJAMIN REILLY Professor of Political Science in the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, Australia PETRA SCHLEITER Tutorial Fellow in Politics (St Hilda's College), and Lecturer in Politics (Department of Politics and International Relations), University of Oxford, UK YU-CHUNG SHEN Assistant Professor at Tunghai University, Taiwan JUNG-HSIANG TSAI Assistant Professor at National Chung Cheng University, Political Science Department, Taiwan

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 regime type of choice for many countries.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 regime type of choice for many countries.