The Regime-Trilemma: On the Relationship between the Executive and Legislature in advanced Democracies
- 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.
| Author details: | Steffen GanghofORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5771/0032-3470-2016-1-27 |
| ISSN: | 0032-3470 |
| ISSN: | 1862-2860 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft |
| Publisher: | Nomos |
| Place of publishing: | Hannover |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | German |
| Year of first publication: | 2016 |
| Publication year: | 2016 |
| Release date: | 2020/03/22 |
| Tag: | bicameralism; executive-legislative relations; semi-parliamentarism |
| Volume: | 57 |
| Number of pages: | 26 |
| First page: | 27 |
| Last Page: | + |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
