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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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): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
External remark: | Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle |