ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Presidential System, Representative Democracy, The Elected
13 Oct 2020
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Presidents and assemblies constitutional design and electoral dynamics. Context: new institutionalism 1980s: rational behavior and individual responses to incentive structures. Political variables at the center of explanation for political outcomes: political outcomes are defined by institutional systems rational choice: conscious about the outcome, make choices based on pros/cons. Shugart and carey (s&c) want to show how various institutional designs for representative democracies affect the ways in which the political process operates. They basically discuss systems in which there is an elected president. These regimes differ from the common parliamentary type in that there are two agents of the electorate: an assembly and a president. Text is excluding parties president (the one representative) is in the center. President represents only majority overlooks minorities (lijpharts criticism) Presidentialism is an inputdemocracy (legitimation through peoples vote) but it should not suffer from democratic deficits.
