This book explores how power-sharing between the president and the prime minister works in semi-presidential regimes. In contrast to much of the existing comparative work on semi-presidentialism, the book emphasizes the role of institutional coordination at the most concrete level of executive policy-making, and asks how institutional coordination between the president and prime minister influences presidential activism and the balance of power within the executive. The authors develop a tentative framework embedded in institutionalism and based on four strands of research – semi-presidentialism, public administration, political leadership, and foreign policy analysis – which is subsequently applied to the cases of Lithuania, Romania and Finland. Given the political challenges facing many semi-presidential countries, the study ultimately seeks to identify institutional solutions that facilitate power-sharing and successful policy-making.
| ISBN: | 9783030164300 |
| Publication date: | 30th May 2019 |
| Author: | Tapio Raunio, Thomas Sedelius |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 169 pages |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics |
| Genres: |
Political leaders and leadership Central / national / federal government Political science and theory International relations |