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This article suggests that the de facto "presidentialization" of parliamentary democracies represents a growing challenge to the party government model. Taking the classic case of the UK as an example, we can see that party government is being steadily undermined as the long-term conditions on which it has been sustained have altered to the benefit of increasingly powerful & autonomous individual leaders. The evidence reveals ways in which candidate-centered electoral processes, changes in intra-party patterns of power, & the growing structural power of prime ministers within the executive branch have combined to enhance the independence of leaders from their parties. 72 References. Adapted from the source document.