TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
A1  - Eppner, Sebastian
A1  - Pörschke, Alexander
T1  - Semi-parliamentary government in perspective
T2  - Australian Journal of Political Science
N2  - The article responds to four commentaries on the concept of semi-parliamentary government and its application to Australian bicameralism. It highlights four main points: (1) Our preferred typology is not more ‘normative’ than existing approaches, but applies the criterion of ‘direct election’ equally to executive and legislature; (2) While the evolution of semi-parliamentary government had contingent elements, it plausibly also reflects the ‘equilibrium’ nature of certain institutional configurations; (3) The idea that a pure parliamentary system with pure proportional representation has absolute normative priority over ‘instrumentalist’ concerns about cabinet stability, identifiability and responsibility is questionable; and (4) The reforms we discuss may be unlikely to occur in Australia, but deserve consideration by scholars and institutional reformers in other democratic systems.
KW  - Executive-legislative relations
KW  - bicameralism
KW  - visions of democracy
KW  - parliamentary government
KW  - presidential government
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54566
SN  - 1036-1146
SN  - 1363-030X
VL  - 53
IS  - 2
SP  - 264
EP  - 269
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -