Semi-parliamentary government in perspective
- The article responds to four commentaries on the concept of semi-parliamentary government and its application to Australian bicameralism. It highlights four main points: (1) Our preferred typology is not more ‘normative’ than existing approaches, but applies the criterion of ‘direct election’ equally to executive and legislature; (2) While the evolution of semi-parliamentary government had contingent elements, it plausibly also reflects the ‘equilibrium’ nature of certain institutional configurations; (3) The idea that a pure parliamentary system with pure proportional representation has absolute normative priority over ‘instrumentalist’ concerns about cabinet stability, identifiability and responsibility is questionable; and (4) The reforms we discuss may be unlikely to occur in Australia, but deserve consideration by scholars and institutional reformers in other democratic systems.
Author details: | Steffen GanghofORCiDGND, Sebastian EppnerORCiDGND, Alexander PörschkeORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2018.1451488 |
ISSN: | 1036-1146 |
ISSN: | 1363-030X |
Title of parent work (English): | Australian Journal of Political Science |
Subtitle (English): | concepts, values, and designs |
Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2018/04/09 |
Publication year: | 2018 |
Release date: | 2022/03/31 |
Tag: | Executive-legislative relations; bicameralism; parliamentary government; presidential government; visions of democracy |
Volume: | 53 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 6 |
First page: | 264 |
Last Page: | 269 |
Funding institution: | Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [GA 1696/2-1] |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
Peer review: | Referiert |