Maurice Duverger in 1980 advanced the concept of a 'semi-presidential'regime: a mix of a
popularly elected and powerful presidency with a prime minister heading a cabinet subject …

This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on
party politics. Conventional political science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible …

This article reviews the scholarship on semi-presidentialism since the early 1990s. We
identify three waves of semi-presidential studies. The first wave focused on the concept of …

Governments led by technocrats remain a nebulous category in political science literature,
with little clarity about how they differ from party governments, how many have existed and …

Making use of a unique data set that includes more than 1000 leadership elections from
over 100 parties in 14 countries over an almost 50 year period, this volume provides the first …

Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by
multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical …

The book offers a solid theory and conceptualization of technocratic politics and the
technocratic challenge is analyzed empirically at all levels of the national and supra-national …

Despite repeated appointments of technocratic governments in Europe and increasing
interest in technocracy, there is little knowledge regarding citizens' attitudes towards …

POLITICAL parties serve a number of important functions in representative democracies.
Connecting citizens to government is perhaps the most important one. This is how parties …

In Europe, technocratic governments have become a popular topic of debate. Commentators
have condemned them as a 'suspension of democracy'or even as 'the end of democracy as …