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THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE QUESTION OF PARLIAMENTARY VERSUS PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT, FOCUSING ON AN ESSAY BY MAURICE DUVERGER, "A NEW POLITICAL SYSTEM MODEL: SEMI-PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT." IN HIS ESSAY, DUVERGER DEFINED THE CONCEPT OF SEMI-PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT AND ARGUED THAT THERE ARE THREE TYPES OF SEMI-PRESIDENTIAL REGIMES: (1) THE PRESIDENT IS A MERE FIGUREHEAD; (2) THE PRESIDENT IS ALL-POWERFUL; (3) THE PRESIDENT SHARES HIS POWER WITH PARLIAMENT. USING FOUR PARAMETERS -- THE CONTENT OF THE CONSTITUTION, TRADITION AND CIRCUMSTANCES, THE COMPOSITION OF THE PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY, AND THE POSITION OF THE PRESIDENT IN RELATION TO THE MAJORITY -- HE EXPLAINED WHY SIMILAR CONSTITUTIONS ARE APPLIED IN RADICALLY DIFFERENT MANNERS.

Popular distrust and the entrenchment of government by professionals lie at the root of America's most pressing political problems. How did U.S. politics get to this point? Contemporary American politics got much of its shape from the transformations brought about from the 1950s to the 1980s. Presidential and congressional behavior, voting behavior, public opinion, public policy and federalism were all reconfigured during that time and many of those changes persist to this day and structure the political environment in the early twenty-first century.Throughout American history, parti

Revolution is Always a Latent Course of action for opposition groups in Mexico where no peaceful process exists for real change of control of political power.Mexicans opposed to the continued domination of their country by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI), which has ruled Mexico since 1929, have compared this year's presidential election to that of 1910. Reelection then of President Porfirio Daz, who had been dictator for 34 years, led directly to the society-shattering revolution which devastated Mexico for well over a decade. The population of Mexico, 15 million in 1910, dropped to 14 million by 1920.Analysis of political trends in Mexico indicates, however, that while armed revolt against continuing political and economic control by the PRI remains an option for the opposition, Mexico's government is not now, nor is it likely to be in the foreseeable future, in danger of being overthrown.

This fully revised and updated English edition of a successful Italian text provides a sophisticated assessment of the theory and practice of world politics in the 21st century. Attinà examines the impact of issues, actors and trends on the contemporary world stage and assesses the future direction of change in global politics.