PARLIAMENTARISM, RATIONALIZED PARLIAMENTARISM AND APPLICABILITY IN TURKEY

Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism

Systems of Government: Parliamentarism and Presidentialism

Parliamentary and Presidential Democracies: Which One is Best? With the exception of the United States, where a system of separation of executive and legislative powers exists, all countries that are considered to be stable democracies adopt a constitution that is, at least partially, parliamentary. A parliamentary constitution is characterized by the fusion of executive and legislative powers,...

Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies

Parliamentary democracy has been widely embraced by politicians and especially by the scholarly community but remains less well understood. In this essay, I identify the institutional features that define parliamentary democracy and suggest how they can be understood as delegation relationships. I propose two definitions: one minimal and one maximal (or ideal-typical). In the latter sense, parl...

REGIME TYPE: DOES IT REALLY MATTER? On the Perils of Semi-Presidentialism for Party System Institutionalization in Post-communist Eastern Europe

Among political scientists the debate about the relative virtues/vices of the different regime types has constituted one of the most incandescent fields of inquiry. Yet few studies address the impact of semi-presidentialism on the prospects for party system institutionalization, otherwise a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for the consolidation of democracy (Mainwaring and Scully, 1995;...

Special Majorities Rationalized

Complaints are common about the arbitrary and conservative bias of special-majority rules. Such complaints, however, apply to asymmetrical versions of those rules alone. Symmetrical special-majority rules remedy that defect, albeit at the cost of often rendering no determinate verdict. Here what is formally at stake, both procedurally and epistemically, is explored in the choice between those t...