TY - BOOK ID - 30964260 TI - The presidentialization of politics : a comparative study of modern democracies AU - Poguntke, Thomas. AU - Webb, Paul AU - European Consortium for Political Research. PY - 2005 SN - 019160237X 0191530824 1281190500 9786611190507 1435621751 9780191602375 9780191622717 0191622710 9780191530821 9780199218493 0199218498 9780199252015 0199252017 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Executive power KW - Presidents KW - Political leadership KW - Presidency KW - Emergency powers KW - Power, Executive KW - Powers KW - Leadership KW - Heads of state KW - Political science KW - Implied powers (Constitutional law) KW - Separation of powers KW - Legislative bodies KW - Comparative government. KW - Pouvoir exécutif KW - Présidents KW - Parlements KW - Leadership politique KW - Institutions politiques comparées KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Cross-cultural studies. KW - Leadership. KW - Etudes transculturelles UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30964260 AB - Leading experts examine and compare the changing role of political parties and their leadership in 14 modern democracies. It is shown how they are increasingly following a presidential logic of governance, through which leadership is becoming more central and more powerful, but also increasingly dependent on appeal to the mass public. ER -