TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
T1  - Bicameralism as a form of government (Or: Why Australia and Japan do not have a parliamentary system)
T2  - Parliamentary affairs : a journal of representative politics
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2014
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37748
SN  - 0031-2290
SN  - 1460-2482
VL  - 67
IS  - 3
SP  - 647
EP  - 663
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -