Parliamentary Versus Presidential Government

by Arend Lijphart

Book Overview

Parliamentary and presidential governments--exemplified by most European countries for the former and the United States and Latin America for the latter--are the two principal forms of democracy in the modern world. Their respective advantages and disadvantages have been long debated, at first mainly by British and American political observers but with increasing frequency in other parts of the world, especially in Latin America, but also in Western...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198780443
• ISBN13: 9780198780441
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"