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Australian bicameralism as semi-parliamentarism

Patterns of Majority Formation in 29 Democracies

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ID6234472
AutoresSteffen Ganghof (0000-0003-2738-2283, University of Potsdam, autor de correspondencia), Sebastian Eppner (University of Potsdam), Alexander Pörschke (University of Potsdam)
Año2018
Volumen53
Número2
Páginas211-233
Fecha de publicación2018-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAustralian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10361146.2018.1451487
OpenAlexW2796943914
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas69

The article analyses the type of bicameralism we find in Australia as a distinct executive-legislative system – a hybrid between parliamentary and presidential government – which we call 'semi-parliamentary government'. We argue that this hybrid presents an important and underappreciated alternative to pure parliamentary government as well as presidential forms of the power-separation, and that it can achieve a certain balance between competing models or visions of democracy. We specify theoretically how the semi-parliamentary separation of powers contributes to the balancing of democratic visions and propose a conceptual framework for comparing democratic visions. We use this framework to locate the Australian Commonwealth, all Australian states and 22 advanced democratic nation-states on a two-dimensional empirical map of democratic patterns for the period from 1995 to 2015

Commonwealth · Comparative politics · Democracy · Divided government · Government (linguistics · Legislature · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Presidential system · Separation of powers · Sociology · Vision · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration

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