00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000007691 20200508204056 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 9780198780441 010-0520007691 eng 320.320 320.320/PAR Edited Arend Lijphart Parliamentary versus Presidential government 07591 New York Cambridge University Press 2004 XII,257p;21,5 cm 21,5 cm Indeks : 251-257 Parliamentary 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. Comparative Government Presidents Cabinet System