Semi-Presidential System and Rationalised Parliamentarism:French and German Cases
Proceeding from the institutional approach to research, the article analyses the cases of institutional arrangements of Germany and France, which are prototypic categories of the system of rationalised parliamentarism and the semi-presidential system. Diff erent defi nitions of both systems are also...
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Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
2006-01-01
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| description | Proceeding from the institutional approach to research, the article analyses the cases of institutional arrangements of Germany and France, which are prototypic categories of the system of rationalised parliamentarism and the semi-presidential system. Diff erent defi nitions of both systems are also examined, as well as their interpretations and critiques. In both countries, new government systems have been generated through constitutional engineering. In 1958, France formed a prototypic constitution of the semipresidential system with a bicephalous executive branch of government. In particular, attention is drawn to problems of a possible confl ict between the prime minister and president within the French bicephalous executive government. In 1949, a system of rationalised parliamentarism with an indirectly elected head of state was established in Germany. The aim of both systems was the adaptation of institutions to the new social, economic and political circumstances, but while in Germany the government system has remained within the matrix of parliamentarism (as rationalised parliamentarism), in France a new category of government system has emerged – the semi-presidential system. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-89d3144ec114454ea0692411b297ec642022-12-22T02:40:27ZengFaculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, CroatiaAnali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva1845-67071847-52992006-01-013.1.83102Semi-Presidential System and Rationalised Parliamentarism:French and German CasesTomislav BonićProceeding from the institutional approach to research, the article analyses the cases of institutional arrangements of Germany and France, which are prototypic categories of the system of rationalised parliamentarism and the semi-presidential system. Diff erent defi nitions of both systems are also examined, as well as their interpretations and critiques. In both countries, new government systems have been generated through constitutional engineering. In 1958, France formed a prototypic constitution of the semipresidential system with a bicephalous executive branch of government. In particular, attention is drawn to problems of a possible confl ict between the prime minister and president within the French bicephalous executive government. In 1949, a system of rationalised parliamentarism with an indirectly elected head of state was established in Germany. The aim of both systems was the adaptation of institutions to the new social, economic and political circumstances, but while in Germany the government system has remained within the matrix of parliamentarism (as rationalised parliamentarism), in France a new category of government system has emerged – the semi-presidential system.http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/60139rationalised parliamentarismsemi-presidential systemconstitutional engineeringFranceGermany |
| spellingShingle | Tomislav Bonić Semi-Presidential System and Rationalised Parliamentarism:French and German Cases Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva rationalised parliamentarism semi-presidential system constitutional engineering France Germany |
| title | Semi-Presidential System and Rationalised Parliamentarism:French and German Cases |
| title_full | Semi-Presidential System and Rationalised Parliamentarism:French and German Cases |
| title_fullStr | Semi-Presidential System and Rationalised Parliamentarism:French and German Cases |
| title_full_unstemmed | Semi-Presidential System and Rationalised Parliamentarism:French and German Cases |
| title_short | Semi-Presidential System and Rationalised Parliamentarism:French and German Cases |
| title_sort | semi presidential system and rationalised parliamentarism french and german cases |
| topic | rationalised parliamentarism semi-presidential system constitutional engineering France Germany |
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