In this major new work, leading experts come together to examine the changing role of political parties and political leadership in fourteen modern democracies. As well as examining cross-national differences, The Presidentialization of Politics analyses how modern democracies are increasingly following a presidential logic of governance, through which leadership is becoming more central and more powerful, but also increasingly dependent on successful appeal to the mass public.
Author(s): Thomas Poguntke, Paul Webb
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 376
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
1. The Presidentialization of Politics in Democratic Societies: A Framework for Analysis......Page 18
2. The British Prime Minister: Much More Than ‘First Among Equals’......Page 43
3. A Presidentializing Party State? The Federal Republic of Germany......Page 80
4. Presidentialization, Italian Style......Page 105
5. The Presidentialization of Spanish Democracy: Sources of Prime Ministerial Power in Post-Franco Spain......Page 124
6. The Low Countries: From ‘Prime Minister’ to President-Minister......Page 145
7. Denmark: Presidentialization in a Consensual Democracy......Page 176
8. ‘President Persson’—How Did Sweden Get Him?......Page 193
9. Canada: Executive Dominance and Presidentialization......Page 216
10. Dyarchic Presidentialization in a Presidentialized Polity: The French Fifth Republic......Page 238
11. Finland: Let the Force Be with the Leader—But Who Is the Leader?......Page 263
12. The Presidentialization of Portuguese Democracy?......Page 286
13. The Failure of Presidential Parliamentarism: Constitutional versus Structural Presidentialization in Israel’s Parliamentary Democracy......Page 306
14. The Semi-Sovereign American Prince: The Dilemma of an Independent President in a Presidential Government......Page 330
15. The Presidentialization of Contemporary Democratic Politics: Evidence, Causes, and Consequences......Page 353
C......Page 374
L......Page 375
P......Page 376
S......Page 377
W......Page 378
