Semi-Presidential Policy-Making In Europe: Executive Coordination And Political Leadership (Palgrave Studies In Presidential Politics)

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.

• | Author: Tapio Raunio, Thomas Sedelius
• | Publisher: Springer
• | Publication Date: May 30, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 182 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3030164306
• | ISBN-13: 9783030164300