Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism: Democratic Design and the Separation of Powers

ISBN-13: 9780192897145 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Steffen Ganghof

Recenzje

Ganghof's book is marked by his uniting an innovative way of thinking about institutional design in democracies and a sophisticated grasp of the conceptual complexities inherent in the idea of political equality. His proposal for semi-parliamentary systems, in which directly elected second chambers have veto-power over ordinary legislation but not government confidence and supply, shows how different visions of majority government can be realized simultaneously. One seldom comes away from a study of comparative institutions with a real sense of intellectual excitement, but this work is an exception.

O autorze

Steffen Ganghof is Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Potsdam. His research concentrates on political institutions and democratic theory. In addition to many articles and chapters, he has authored or co-edited four books in German and he is the author of The Politics of Income Taxation: A Comparative Analysis (ECPR Press, 2006).