POLI 419 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Parliamentary System
11 Oct 2017
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Institutional choice model (easter) (97") institutions are not neutral, some help democratisation, others help authoritarian trend. Debates among comparativists regarding relative usefulness of different institutional designs. Woodrow wilson was an advocate of the british parliamentary system, didn"t like separation of powers in the president and the congress most former soviet republics chose presidentialism, like french version (popularly elected president and parliament) Most east/central europe states chose parliamentarism and mixed regimes. Q: relationship between elite preference and type of regime? was it by chance or was there a deep political interest in the elites that made these institutional decisions. Consolidated elite had presidentialism, elites from communist parties never gave up power. Ex: uzbekistan, during tensions, communist party monopoly lasted until the end. Then, the leader of the communist party became president in the post soviet times. Dispersed eilte mostly had parliamentarism, a few had mixed. Reformed elite mostly had presidentialism, others were split between parliamenatrism and mixes regime.
