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Albert on Presidentialism & Parliamentarism

By Lawrence Solum

Richard Albert (Boston College - Law School) has posted The Fusion of Presidentialism and Parliamentarism (American Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

No question of constitutional design is more intensely debated than whether emerging democracies should adopt presidential or parliamentary systems. This is an important debate but it misses a critical point about constitutional design ? namely that the structural differences between presidentialism and parliamentarism conceal much more than they reveal. In this Article, I demonstrate precisely how conventional accounts of the structural differences between presidentialism and parliamentarism actually obscure their functional similarities.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on July 06, 2009 (boomark / email).