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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783399003321

Titolo

The presidentialization of politics : a comparative study of modern democracies / / edited by Thomas Poguntke and Paul Webb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-160237-X

0-19-153082-4

1-281-19050-0

9786611190507

1-4356-2175-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 361 p.)

Collana

Comparative politics

Altri autori (Persone)

PoguntkeThomas

WebbPaul <1959 April 15->

Disciplina

324.2/2

Soggetti

Executive power

Presidents

Political leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements and Dedication""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""1. The Presidentialization of Politics in Democratic Societies: A Framework for Analysis""; ""2. The British Prime Minister: Much More Than �First Among Equals�""; ""3. A Presidentializing Party State? The Federal Republic of Germany""; ""4. Presidentialization, Italian Style""; ""5. The Presidentialization of Spanish Democracy: Sources of Prime Ministerial Power in Post-Franco Spain""; ""6. The Low Countries: From �Prime Minister� to President-Minister""

""7. Denmark: Presidentialization in a Consensual Democracy""""8. �President Persson��How Did Sweden Get Him?""; ""9. Canada: Executive Dominance and Presidentialization""; ""10. Dyarchic Presidentialization in a Presidentialized Polity: The French Fifth Republic""; ""11. Finland: Let the Force Be with the Leader� But Who Is the Leader?""; ""12. The Presidentialization of Portuguese Democracy?""; ""13. The Failure of Presidential Parliamentarism: Constitutional versus



Structural Presidentialization in Israel�s Parliamentary Democracy""

""14. The Semi-Sovereign American Prince: The Dilemma of an Independent President in a Presidential Government""""15. The Presidentialization of Contemporary Democratic Politics: Evidence, Causes, and Consequences""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Sommario/riassunto

Leading experts examine and compare the changing role of political parties and their leadership in 14 modern democracies. It is shown how they are increasingly following a presidential logic of governance, through which leadership is becoming more central and more powerful, but also increasingly dependent on appeal to the mass public.