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10 Cards in this Set
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The spirit of presidential systems
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Different kinds of power should not be concentrated in the same group of people → no overlapping of personnel
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The spirit of parliamentary systems
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Concentrating executive and legislative power in the same group of people
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Executive-legislature deadlock
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Executive and legislature are not accountable to each other. → Legislature is not expected to support executive every time. → Separate elections mean that executive and legislature can be in the hands of different parties.
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Immobilism
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Each actor has enough power to frustrate and block each other, but not enough to accomplish its own goals, which means it is possible that nothing will be achieved.
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Immobilism and presidentialism
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The structure of the independently elected presidency and legislature does not necessarily lead to immobilism but it does enable to the state to develop.
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Presidentialism and democratic failure
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continuous ineffective governance → people lose confidence in democracy. [heather: it’s about the system not democracy]
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Dissolving the legislature when there is no majority
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it may be clear that political stability is not possible with the legislature constituted in its current form.
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Unstable executive (problem of parliamentarianism)
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Election alone is not enough to secure government terms: If this individual’s party control the majority …
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Party loyalty competing with voter support (problem of parliamentarianism)
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After election, even party cannot remove the president because of the independent power base.
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Responsible government (comparison between the two systems)
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legislature...
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