TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
T1  - The Regime-Trilemma: On the Relationship between the Executive and Legislature in advanced Democracies
JF  - Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft
N2  - A comprehensive typology of basic executive formats is presented and linked to a discussion of tradeoffs in the design of executive-legislative relations. The focus is on the tradeoffs between three goals: (1) programmatic parties, (2) identifiable cabinets and (3) issue -specific legislative coalitions. To include semi-presidentialism into the typology in a logically consistent manner, a heretofore neglected executive format has to be defined, which is labelled semi-parliamentarism. Based on a discussion of Australian states, it is argued that semi-parliamentarism has the potential to mitigate the trilemma.
KW  - executive-legislative relations
KW  - semi-parliamentarism
KW  - bicameralism
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5771/0032-3470-2016-1-27
SN  - 0032-3470
SN  - 1862-2860
VL  - 57
SP  - 27
EP  - +
PB  - Nomos
CY  - Hannover
ER  -