Semi-parliamentary government in perspective
- 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.
Verfasserangaben: | Steffen GanghofORCiDGND, Sebastian EppnerORCiDGND, Alexander Pörschke |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2018.1451488 |
ISSN: | 1036-1146 |
ISSN: | 1363-030X |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Australian Journal of Political Science |
Untertitel (Englisch): | concepts, values, and designs |
Verlag: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Verlagsort: | Abingdon |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 09.04.2018 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 31.03.2022 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Executive-legislative relations; bicameralism; parliamentary government; presidential government; visions of democracy |
Band: | 53 |
Ausgabe: | 2 |
Seitenanzahl: | 6 |
Erste Seite: | 264 |
Letzte Seite: | 269 |
Fördernde Institution: | Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [GA 1696/2-1] |
Organisationseinheiten: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
Peer Review: | Referiert |