political science

electoral system was used very widely in local and national assemblies in pre- democratic or early democratic periods before and ...

numerous potential candidates into a few broad, potentially winning candidacies. By analyzing party systems and elections over l ...

What has possibly been the most inXuential political regime typology in recent comparative studies is based on the two instituti ...

parliamentary majority in a parliamentary regime should also be characterized as ‘‘divided government.’’ The integration into th ...

parliamentary-proportional (e.g. Germany, the Netherlands); checks and balances (e.g. United States, Indonesia); semi-president ...

1 Government Formation In parliamentary regimes with majoritarian electoral rules, a single party, even with minority electora ...

2 Policy Performance A seminal analysis of the policy eVects of diVerent constitutional regimes and the type of governments th ...

as well as those regulating property rights, contracts, andWnances, might be more relevant to explaining economic growth than ce ...

legitimacy (Rogowski 1974 ), it can modeled as a positive relation between institu- tional pluralism and democratic stability (M ...

The number of constitutional democracies rose enormously during the last quarter of the twentieth century, encompassing for theW ...

sharing, and the ‘‘presidentialist’’ model, diVused in Latin America and possibly other parts of the world, favoring the concent ...

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Laver, M. and Schofield,N. 1990 .Multiparty Government. Oxford: Oxford University Press. —— and Shepsle,K. 1991. Divided governm ...

Persson, T. and Tabellini,G. 2003 .The Economic EVects of Constitutions. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Peterson, P. and Greene,J. ...

Strong,C.F. 1963 .A History of Modern Political Constitutions. New York: Capricorn. Taagepera,R. 2003. Arend Lijphart’s dimensio ...

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federal system since the 1970 s mitigates against subnational governments being able to bring their discretionary resources to b ...

federalism,’’ 2 it is argued, existed when the process of nationalization was much less advanced; currently the force of mandate ...