Parliamentary Democracy

by Klaus von Beyme

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333791916
• ISBN13: 9780333791912
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"