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ISBN:
9780198295655 9780191599149
Type:
Hardback
ePub
Publication Date: 8 November 2001
Page Extent: 254
Series: Comparative Politics Series
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Divided Government in Comparative Perspective

By Robert Elgie

Divided government occurs when the executive fails to enjoy majority support in at least one working house of the legislature. To date, the study of divided government has focused almost exclusively on the United States. However, divided government occurs much more widely. It occurs in other presidential systems. Moreover, it is also the equivalent of minority government in parliamentary regimes and cohabitation in French-style semi-presidential systems. This book examines the frequency, causes and management of divided government in comparative context, identifying the similarities and differences between the various experiences of this increasingly frequent form of government. The countries studied include Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Poland, and the US.

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This valuable book amply sustains its editor's belief that this is an area where interesting research can be carried out. -- 'West European Politics'

Robert Elgie is Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. He received his BA from Oxford University and his PhD from the London School of Economics. He is the author of Political Institutions in Contemporary France (2001) and is the co-editor, with Andrew Appleton, of the journal French Politics (Palgrave Macmillan). He has published extensively on the theme of semi-presidentialism, recently, Semi-Presidentialism: Sub-Types And Democratic Performance (2011), has written several articles in journals such as the Journal of Democracy and edited or co-edited four books on this subject.

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