PAPER 201
Lectures for this paper are at 12 noon on Mondays
Please note that there is a new comparative government reading list which may be found on the Faculty Web site. There are also a number of useful new bibliographical sites which I will be highlighting here:
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Lecture 2 Executives
A full synopsis of this lecture with further references will follow soon.
Here is one part of the handout which was not distributed last Monday.
TYPES OF REGIME
PRESIDENTIAL
United States; Mexico, Philippines, large parts of Latin America (e.g. Argentina)
Parliamentary but with strong (presidentialized?) premiers
UK; Spain; Germany; Italy; Israel
Parliamentary but with weaker premiers.
Countries with multiparty coalitions (e.g. Holland); Japan
SEMI PRESIDENTIAL
Strong Presidency – South Korea; Namibia; Peru; Guyana
Weak (largely ceremonial ) Presidency
Portugal (more parliamentary after consolidation of democracy);Bulgaria;Iceland;;Ireland; Slovenia
Balanced systems
Premier-leaning
Bulgaria;Cape Verde;Croatia;Finland (see reference below ) ;Lithuania ;Poland
Presidential leaning
France;Senegal;Taiwan
(1) FINLAND .Finland's semi-presidential system is well described in Jaako Nousiainen "From Semi-Presidentialism to Parliamentary Government :Political and Constitutional Developments in Finland" Scandinavian Political Studies 24 2 2001
