Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation
Parliamentarianism versus Presidentialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6412435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alfred Stepan (Columbia University), Cindy Skach (0000-0002-2156-7482, Columbia University) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 1993-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2950664 |
| OpenAlex | W2117600384 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 297 |
| References cited | 24 |
A fundamental political-institutional question that has only recently received serious scholarly attention concerns the impact of different constitutional frameworks on democratic consolidation. Little systematic cross-regional evidence has been brought to bear on this question. This article reports the findings of the analysis of numerous different sources of data, all of which point in the direction of a much stronger correlation between democratic consolidation and the constitutional framework of pure parliamentarianism than between consolidation and pure presidentialism. The systematic analysis of these data leads the authors to conclude that parliamentarianism is a more supportive constitutional framework due to the following theoretically predictable and empirically observable tendencies: its greater propensity for governments to have majorities to implement their programs, its greater ability to rule in a multiparty setting, its lower propensity for executives to rule at the edge of the constitution and its greater facility in removing a chief executive if he or she does so, its lower susceptibility to a military coup, and its greater tendency to provide long party-government careers, which add loyalty and experience to political society. In contrast, the analytically separable propensities of presidentialism also form a highly interactive system, but they work to impede democratic consolidation by reducing politicians' degrees of freedom
Consolidation (business · Constitution · Democracy · Democratic consolidation · Democratization · Economics · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Separation of powers · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration
Governing Europe
The Architecture of Democracy
Coalizões de governo
What the Democratization Literature Says—or Doesn’t Say—About Postwar Democratization
Senior Bureaucrats, Coalitions and the Quality of Government
Federalism and the First Republic of Nigeria, 1960–1966
Bulgaria
Ukraine
Yugoslavia
Comparative Constitutions
Comparative Executive–Legislative Relations
Romania
China
Russia
Slovakia
Democratization
Democracy in Hard Places
Rebuilding Leviathan
Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America
Engendering Transitions
Semi-presidentialism in Europe
Contesting Citizenship in Latin America
Institutions and Their Design
Constitutional Design
Mass Polarization Across Time and Space
Die Bedeutung von Parteien und Parteiensystemen für die Konsolidierung der Demokratie
The Changing European State
Contentious Politics in Western Europe and the United States
On Studying Governments
A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance
Struktur oder Akteur, System oder Handlung
Institutionalisierung und Konsolidierung der Demokratie in Ostmitteleuropa
Democratization and Research Methods
Recasting European Welfare States
Theorien der Transformation
What Is New About Governance and Why Does It Matter?
Comparing Economic Interest Organizations
The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the Twentieth Century
Political Institutions
Human Development and Electoral Systems
A new political system
Las instituciones sí importan
La oposición parlamentaria en el Perú (2006-2020)
Demokrati eller presidentdiktatur? Konstitutionella vägval i postkommunistiska länder
Republic of Ireland
Chapitre 18. Noir c’est noir
The Belfast Agreement and the British‐Irish Agreement
Contending Orders
Democracy and Diversity
Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption
Party System Closure
Electoral Systems and Democratization in Southern Africa
When Democracies Deliver
Democracy Derailed in Russia
Structuring Conflict in the Arab World
Presidentialism, Elections and Representation
Assimetria de poder na transição democrática e o desenho da jurisdição constitucional brasileira
Persistent systemic corruption
Patterns of Democracy
Unlikely candidates for democracy
The democratic backsliding paradigm in enlarged European Union countries
When Indicators Guide Bills
Epistemological lacunae in conceptualising political structure
Classifying forms of government on a global scale
Public support for Latin American presidents
Public Opinion, Democracy, and the Armed Forces
Democracy, aid, and diffusion
Is Presidentialism Necessarily Non-collegial
Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and the Provision of Collective Goods in Less-Developed Countries
Party Fragmentation and Presidential Elections in Post-Communist Democracies
Constitutional coordination in unstable party systems
Role of Political Habitus in Shaping Dynamics of Democracy
Presidential Power Unbound
Leaving the Barracks
Foundations for Change
Bringing the Global Political Economy Back In
Reassessing Duvergerian semi-presidentialism
The AKP'S proposal for a “Turkish type of presidentialism” in comparative context
Pathologies or Progress? Evaluating the effects of Divided Government and Party Volatility
Anomalous authoritarianism
Revisiting Structural Variables of Trade Negotiations
The political genesis of the conflict in Chechnya, 1990–1994
Presidentialism and legislative fragmentation
Ethnopolitical parties and democratic consolidation in post‐communist Eastern Europe
Institutions and ethnopolitical conflict in post‐communist politics
Presidents and democratization in Poland
The electoral effects of presidentialism in post‐Soviet Russia
Comparing the Power of Korean and American Presidents
The Authoritarian Origins of the President‐Ruling Party Relationship in South Korea
The Africanisation of the South Pacific
Political oversight of arts councils
Market structures, political institutions, and democratization
Presidentialism and the Development of Party Systems in Hybrid Regimes
Parliamentary Control and the Constitutional Definition of Foreign Policy Making in Democratic Poland
Bankrupt Government
Developing democracy in Africa
The Political Origins of Judicial Empowerment through Constitutionalization
Political Field Dynamics and the Elite’s Interest in Democracy
Restriktionen und Chancen demokratischer Konsolidierung in postkommunistischen Gesellschaften. Ostmitteleuropa im Vergleich
External threats and political survival
The emergence of market economies in Eastern Europe
Parties and party systems
Polyarchy
The theory of political coalitions.
Presidents and Assemblies
Democracies
The political consequences of electoral laws
Democracy and the Market
The Politics of Economic Adjustment
Democracy in the Caribbean
The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes
Pathways to Power
A New Political System Model
Effective” Number of Parties
The New Institutionalism
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| Citations per year | 9,28 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
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| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 292 |