Author's Keywords: Semi-presidentialism, president-parliamentarism; premier-presidentialism; cohabitation; cabinet stability	Convention All Academic Convention is the premier solution for your association's abstract management solutions needs. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Elgie, Robert. and McMenamin, Iain. "Variation within semi-presidentialism: Cohabitation, Cabinet Stability and Non-Partisan Prime Ministers" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p208883_index.html>

Elgie, R. and McMenamin, I. , 2007-08-30 "Variation within semi-presidentialism: Cohabitation, Cabinet Stability and Non-Partisan Prime Ministers" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p208883_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Semi-presidentialism is a regime where a directly elected president operates alongside a prime minister who is responsible to the legislature. There is an academic consensus that semi-presidentialism is a problematic regime type. Yet, there are a large number of semi-presidential countries. Within the population of semi-presidential countries, there is wide institutional variation. The most common way of capturing this variation is to distinguish between president-parliamentarism, where the president has the power to dismiss the prime minister, and premier-presidentialism, where the prime minister is responsible only to the legislature. Matthew Shugart (2005) hypothesised that president-parliamentary systems were likely to be more “Madisonian” than premier-presidential systems because the legislature has to take account of the president’s prime ministerial preferences. However, this intuition remained untested. In this paper, we build on Shugart’s work. We do so theoretically by adding a further “Madisonian” variable - whether or not the president has the power to dissolve the legislature. On this basis, we identify two sub-types of president-parliamentarism and two sub-types of premier-presidentialism. We hypothesise different consequences in relation to cohabitation, prime ministerial turnover and the incidence of non-partisan prime ministers. We also add to Shugart’s work empirically by testing the hypotheses using data on all democratic semi-presidential systems since 1975. We find support for four of the five hypotheses that we identify. These findings speak to the debate about the pros and cons of semi-presidentialism by suggesting that certain types of semi-presidentialism are less prone to the problems of semi-presidentialism commonly identified by the scholarly community.

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