TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
T1  - A new political system model
T2  - European Journal for Political Research
N2  - 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.
KW  - semi-parliamentarism
KW  - bicameralism
KW  - Australia
KW  - New South Wales
KW  - Japan
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53008
SN  - 0304-4130
SN  - 1475-6765
VL  - 57
IS  - 2
SP  - 261
EP  - 281
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -