TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
T1  - A new political system model
BT  - Semi-parliamentary government
JF  - 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
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12224
SN  - 0304-4130
SN  - 1475-6765
VL  - 57
IS  - 2
SP  - 261
EP  - 281
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
T1  - The Regime-Trilemma: On the Relationship between the Executive and Legislature in advanced Democracies
JF  - Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft
N2  - A comprehensive typology of basic executive formats is presented and linked to a discussion of tradeoffs in the design of executive-legislative relations. The focus is on the tradeoffs between three goals: (1) programmatic parties, (2) identifiable cabinets and (3) issue -specific legislative coalitions. To include semi-presidentialism into the typology in a logically consistent manner, a heretofore neglected executive format has to be defined, which is labelled semi-parliamentarism. Based on a discussion of Australian states, it is argued that semi-parliamentarism has the potential to mitigate the trilemma.
KW  - executive-legislative relations
KW  - semi-parliamentarism
KW  - bicameralism
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5771/0032-3470-2016-1-27
SN  - 0032-3470
SN  - 1862-2860
VL  - 57
SP  - 27
EP  - +
PB  - Nomos
CY  - Hannover
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
T1  - Justifying types of representative democracy
BT  - a response
JF  - Critical review of international social and political philosophy
N2  - This article responds to critical reflections on my Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism by Sarah Birch, Kevin J. Elliott, Claudia Landwehr and James L. Wilson. It discusses how different types of representative democracy, especially different forms of government (presidential, parliamentary or hybrid), can be justified. It clarifies, among other things, the distinction between procedural and process equality, the strengths of semi-parliamentary government, the potential instability of constitutional designs, and the difference that theories can make in actual processes of constitutional reform.
KW  - political equality
KW  - semi-parliamentarism
KW  - presidentialism
KW  - institutional design
KW  - executive personalism
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2022.2159665
SN  - 1369-8230
SN  - 1743-8772
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - Routledge
CY  - London
ER  -