Bicameralism as a form of government (Or: Why Australia and Japan do not have a parliamentary system)
- The article analyses a certain type of bicameralism not merely as a form of legislative organisation, but as a form of government-as a hybrid between parliamentarism and presidentialism. A new typology of pure and hybrid forms of government is proposed, which classifies bicameralism in Australia and Japan as chamber-independent government. This type is systematically compared with other forms of government, including hybrids like semi-presidentialism, elected prime-ministerial government in Israel (from 1996 to 2002) and assembly-independent government in Switzerland. The article highlights how chamber-independent government has the potential to combine different visions of democracy without leading to presidentialisation of political parties.
Author details: | Steffen GanghofORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gss081 |
ISSN: | 0031-2290 |
ISSN: | 1460-2482 |
Title of parent work (English): | Parliamentary affairs : a journal of representative politics |
Publisher: | Oxford Univ. Press |
Place of publishing: | Oxford |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2014 |
Publication year: | 2014 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Volume: | 67 |
Issue: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 17 |
First page: | 647 |
Last Page: | 663 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
Peer review: | Referiert |