TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
A1  - Eppner, Sebastian
A1  - Pörschke, Alexander
T1  - Australian bicameralism as semi-parliamentarism
BT  - patterns of majority formation in 29 democracies
JF  - Australian Journal of Political Science
N2  - The article analyses the type of bicameralism we find in Australia as a distinct executive-legislative system – a hybrid between parliamentary and presidential government – which we call ‘semi-parliamentary government’. We argue that this hybrid presents an important and underappreciated alternative to pure parliamentary government as well as presidential forms of the power-separation, and that it can achieve a certain balance between competing models or visions of democracy. We specify theoretically how the semi-parliamentary separation of powers contributes to the balancing of democratic visions and propose a conceptual framework for comparing democratic visions. We use this framework to locate the Australian Commonwealth, all Australian states and 22 advanced democratic nation-states on a two-dimensional empirical map of democratic patterns for the period from 1995 to 2015.
KW  - Executive-legislative relations
KW  - bicameralism
KW  - parliamentary government
KW  - presidential government
KW  - visions of democracy
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2018.1451487
SN  - 1036-1146
SN  - 1363-030X
VL  - 53
IS  - 2
SP  - 211
EP  - 233
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -