Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers: How the Separation

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Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers: How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior
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This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on party politics. Conventional political science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible without political parties, because parties fulfill all the key functions of democratic governance. They nominate candidates, coordinate campaigns, aggregate interests, formulate and implement policy, and manage government power. When scholars first asserted the essential connection between parties and democracy, most of the world's democracies were parliamentary. Yet by the dawn of the twenty-first century, most democracies had directly elected presidents. Given this, if parties are truly critical to democracy, then a systematic understanding of how the separation of powers shapes parties is long overdue. David J. Samuels and Matthew S. Shugart provide a theoretical framework for analyzing variation in the relationships among presidents, parties, and prime ministers across the world's democracies, revealing the important ways that the separation of powers alters party organization and behavior - thereby changing the nature of democratic representation and accountability.

Country	USA
Brand	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	14 b/w illus. 30 tables
Model	14 b/w illus. 30 tables
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780521689687
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers: How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior

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