Australian bicameralism as semi-parliamentarism
- 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.
Author details: | Steffen GanghofORCiDGND, Sebastian EppnerORCiDGND, Alexander PörschkeORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2018.1451487 |
ISSN: | 1036-1146 |
ISSN: | 1363-030X |
Title of parent work (English): | Australian Journal of Political Science |
Subtitle (English): | patterns of majority formation in 29 democracies |
Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2018/04/09 |
Publication year: | 2018 |
Release date: | 2022/03/31 |
Tag: | Executive-legislative relations; bicameralism; parliamentary government; presidential government; visions of democracy |
Volume: | 53 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 23 |
First page: | 211 |
Last Page: | 233 |
Funding institution: | Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [GA 1696/2-1] |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Bronze Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschaft- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 95 |