THE PERILS OF SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM

In: The review of politics, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 142-C

Abstract

Following Robert Elgie, Skach defines a semi-presidential constitution as a dual executive system, in which the head of state is a popularly elected president with a fixed term of office and the head of government is a prime minister who is responsible to the legislature Robert Elgie, 'The Politics of Semi-Presidentialism,' in Semi-Presidentialism in Europe, ed.