TY  - GEN
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
A1  - Eppner, Sebastian
A1  - Pörschke, Alexander
T1  - Australian bicameralism as semi-parliamentarism
BT  - patterns of majority formation in 29 democracies
T2  - 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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 95 
KW  - executive-legislative relations
KW  - bicameralism
KW  - parliamentary government
KW  - presidential government
KW  - visions of democracy
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412984
ER  -