ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Presidential System, Parliamentary System, Identifiability
13 Oct 2020
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Presidents and assemblies constitutional design and electoral dynamics. Context : new institutionalism 1980s : rational behavior, individual responses to incentive structures, political variables at the center of explanation for political outcomes & rational choice: conscious about the outcome, make choices based on pros/cons. Normative text proposes & defense of a political model: presidentialism. Text is excluding parties president (the one representative) is in the center. President represents only majority overlooks minorities (lijpharts criticism) Presidentialism is a inputdemocracy (legitimation through peoples vote) but it should not suffer from democratic deficits. No existing presidential system has ever changed into a parliamentary system. Assemblies are ordinarly expected to be parochial in nature emerge of the presidential system: People don t want simply to vote for a delegate ; they want to elect the person who rules by themselves. 1st round: usa: presidential system as deliberate response to the problem of how to create a national executive.
