Presidents, parties, and prime ministers : how the separation of powers affects party organization and behavior / David J. Samuels, Matthew S. Shugart.

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 fulfil all the key functions of democratic governance. They nominate candidates...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Samuels, David, 1967- (Author)
Other Authors: Shugart, Matthew Soberg, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010.
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Summary: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 fulfil 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. 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 295 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and index.
ISBN:9780511776298
0511776292
9780511773716
0511773714
9780511780882
0511780885
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511780882