TY - BOOK ID - 136765569 TI - Semi-presidentialism and democracy. AU - Elgie, Robert AU - Moestrup, Sophia AU - Wu, Yushan PY - 2011 SN - 9780230242920 PB - New York Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Comparative government KW - Democracy KW - Executive power KW - Presidents KW - Prime ministers KW - Representative government and representation KW - Semi-presidential system UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136765569 AB - "This book explores the effect of semi-presidentialism on newly-democratising countries. In recent years semi-presidentialism -- the situation where a constitution makes provision for both a directly elected president and a prime minister who is responsible to the legislature -- has become the regime type of choice for many countries"-- ER -