The Presidentialization of Politics: A Comparative Study of Modern Democracies

by Thomas Poguntke

The Presidentialization of Politics shows that the politics of democratic societies is moving towards a presidentialized working mode, even in the absence of formal institutional changes. These developments can be explained by a combination of long-term structural changes in modern politics and societies' contingent factors which fluctuate over time. While these contingent, short-term factors relate to the personalities of office holders, the overall...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199218498
• ISBN13: 9780199218493
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.2"