Semi-Presidential Policy-Making in Europe: Executive Coordination and Political Leadership (Repost)
Tapio Raunio, Thomas Sedelius, "Semi-Presidential Policy-Making in Europe: Executive Coordination and Political Leadership"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030164306 | PDF | pages: 178 | 1.9 mb
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030164306 | PDF | pages: 178 | 1.9 mb
This book explores how power-sharing between the president and the prime minister works in semi-presidential regimes. In contrast to much of the existing comparative work on semi-presidentialism, the book emphasizes the role of institutional coordination at the most concrete level of executive policy-making, and asks how institutional coordination between the president and prime minister influences presidential activism and the balance of power within the executive. The authors develop a tentative framework embedded in institutionalism and based on four strands of research – semi-presidentialism, public administration, political leadership, and foreign policy analysis – which is subsequently applied to the cases of Lithuania, Romania and Finland. Given the political challenges facing many semi-presidential countries, the study ultimately seeks to identify institutional solutions that facilitate power-sharing and successful policy-making.