Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers: How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior by David J. Samuels Details
This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on party policies. The wisdom of traditional political science assumes that democracy is impossible without political…
This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on party policies. The wisdom of traditional political science assumes that democracy is impossible without political parties, because the parties fulfill all the key functions of democratic governance.
They nominate candidates, coordinate campaigns, overall interests, formulate and implement policies, and manage government authority. When scientists first emphasized the fundamental relationship between parties and democracy, most of the world's democracies were parliamentary.
But by the dawn of the twenty-first century, most democracies had been directly elected heads. David J.
Samuels and Matthew S. Shugart provide a theoretical framework for analyzing the differences in relations between presidents, parties and prime ministers across the world's democracies, revealing important ways of separating authorities from party organization and behavior - and thus changing the nature of democratic representation and accountability..
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