01551     2200229   4500001002100000005001500021008004100036020001800077035001900095041000800114082001200122084001600134100002600150245005500176260004700231300003000278500002100308520093100329650002701260650001501287650001901302INLIS00000000000769120200508204056200508|||||||||   |   |||   |||| ||eng||  a9780198780441  0010-0520007691  aeng0 a320.320  a320.320/PAR0 aEdited Arend Lijphart00aParliamentary versus Presidential government 07591  aNew YorkbCambridge University Pressc2004  aXII,257p;21,5 cmc21,5 cm  aIndeks : 251-257  aParliamentary and presidential governments--exemplified by most European countries for the former and the United States and Latin America for the latter--are the two principal forms of democracy in the modern world. Their respective advantages and disadvantages have been long debated, at firstmainly by British and American political observers but with increasing frequency in other parts of the world, especially in Latin America, but also in Western and Eastern Europe and Asia. The recent world-wide wave of democratization has intensified both the debate and its significance. This volumebrings together the most important statement on the subject by advocates and analysts--from Montesquieu and Madison to Lipset and Linz. It also treats the merits of less frequently used democratic types, such as French-style semi-presidentialism, that may be regarded as intermediate forms betweenparliamentarism and presidentialism. 0aComparative Government 0aPresidents 0aCabinet System