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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.

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Author details:Steffen GanghofORCiDGND, Sebastian EppnerORCiDGND, Alexander Pörschke
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412984
Title of parent work (English):Australian Journal of Political Science
Subtitle (English):patterns of majority formation in 29 democracies
Publication series (Volume number):Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe (95)
Publication type:Postprint
Language:English
Date of first publication:2018/07/10
Publication year:2018
Publishing institution:Universität Potsdam
Release date:2018/07/10
Tag:bicameralism; executive-legislative relations; parliamentary government; presidential government; visions of democracy
Number of pages:24
Source:Australian Journal of Political Science 53 (2018) Nr. 2, S. 211–233 DOI: 10.1080/10361146.2018.1451487
Organizational units:Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
DDC classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft
Peer review:Referiert
Publishing method:Open Access
Grantor:Taylor & Francis Open Access Agreement
License (German):License LogoCC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International
External remark:Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle
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