Richard Albert (Boston College - Law School) has posted The Fusion of Presidentialism and Parliamentarism (American Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
- No question of constitutional design is more intensely debated than whether emerging democracies should adopt presidential or parliamentary systems. This is an important debate but it misses a critical point about constitutional design — namely that the structural differences between presidentialism and parliamentarism conceal much more than they reveal. In this Article, I demonstrate precisely how conventional accounts of the structural differences between presidentialism and parliamentarism actually obscure their functional similarities.
