What's in a name? Semi-parliamentarism and Australian Commonwealth executive-legislative relations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6234748
AutoresMarija Taflaga (0000-0001-9516-7193, Australian National University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen53
Número2
Páginas248-255
Fecha de publicación2018-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAustralian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10361146.2018.1451484
OpenAlexW2797575599
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas14

The concept of semi-parliamentarianism provides a parsimonious classificatory description of Australian politics as it is really practiced. This concept encapsulates the tension in Australia's executive-legislative relations: balancing the government's requirement to maintain confidence only within the House of Representatives and the fact of the Senate's equally legitimate powers. In this way, semi-parliamentarianism pin-points the distinction between the Australian and other parliamentary systems. This has implications for the practice of real-world politics because political actors conceptualise and fulfil their roles differently in each chamber. Further, the paper argues that the concept of semi-parliamentarianism reveals why a powerful upper chamber with equal legitimacy transforms politics into a form that is no longer recognisably parliamentary. Finally, the concept of semi-parliamentarism may facilitate a more comprehensive integration of Australian executive-legislative relations into international debates

Commonwealth · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Legislature · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Separation of powers · Sociology · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration