A new political system model
- Semi-parliamentary government is a distinct executive-legislative system that mirrors semi-presidentialism. It exists when the legislature is divided into two equally legitimate parts, only one of which can dismiss the prime minister in a no-confidence vote. This system has distinct advantages over pure parliamentary and presidential systems: it establishes a branch-based separation of powers and can balance the ‘majoritarian’ and ‘proportional’ visions of democracy without concentrating executive power in a single individual. This article analyses bicameral versions of semi-parliamentary government in Australia and Japan, and compares empirical patterns of democracy in the Australian Commonwealth as well as New South Wales to 20 advanced parliamentary and semi-presidential systems. It discusses new semi-parliamentary designs, some of which do not require formal bicameralism, and pays special attention to semi-parliamentary options for democratising the European Union.
Author details: | Steffen GanghofORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12224 |
ISSN: | 0304-4130 |
ISSN: | 1475-6765 |
Title of parent work (English): | European Journal for Political Research |
Subtitle (English): | Semi-parliamentary government |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Place of publishing: | Hoboken |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2018 |
Publication year: | 2018 |
Release date: | 2021/12/07 |
Tag: | Australia; Japan; New South Wales; bicameralism; semi-parliamentarism |
Volume: | 57 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 21 |
First page: | 261 |
Last Page: | 281 |
Funding institution: | NSW section of the Australasian Study of Parliament Group; German Research Foundation (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [GA 1696/2-1] |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |