Parliamentary Democracy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333791912)

Parliamentary Democracy provides a comparative study of the parliamentary regimes since 1789. The book covers the road to parliamentarization of former constitutional monarchies and the creation of parliamentary regimes by exercising the constitution-making power of the people. What has been called democratization in most of the 'transitology' literature was until 1918 mostly only 'parliamentarization'. Democratization of the regimes frequently caused a certain destabilization of the parliamentary regimes by new parties and extremist movement entering the political arena. This is the first book to cover the entire range of parliamentary systems, including the semi-presidential systems.

Author: K. Beyme
ISBN-10: 0333791916
ISBN-13: 9780333791912
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2000
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d