TY - BOOK ID - 11354392 TI - Semi-Presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia AU - Elgie, Robert. AU - Moestrup, Sophia. PY - 2016 SN - 1137387807 1137387815 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Political science. KW - Comparative politics. KW - Democracy. KW - Asia KW - Political Science and International Relations. KW - Comparative Politics. KW - Asian Politics. KW - Politics and government. KW - Semi-presidential system KW - Democratization KW - Democratic consolidation KW - Democratic transition KW - Semi-presidentialism KW - Semipresidential system KW - Semipresidentialism KW - Political science KW - New democracies KW - Asia-Politics and government. KW - Self-government KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - Comparative political systems KW - Comparative politics KW - Government, Comparative KW - Political systems, Comparative KW - Asia—Politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11354392 AB - This edited collection examines the politics of semi-presidential countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Semi-presidentialism is the situation where there is both a directly elected fixed-term president and a prime minister and cabinet that are collectively responsible for the legislature. There are four countries with a semi-presidential constitution in this region - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan. The authors introduce the concept of semi-presidentialism, place the countries in a general post-Soviet context, and compare them with Kazakhstan. They investigate the relationship between semi-presidentialism in the formal constitution and the verticality of power in reality, explore the extent to which semi-presidentialism has been responsible for the relative performance of democracy in each country, and chart the relationship within the executive both between the president, prime minister and ministers, and between the executive and the legislature. < . ER -