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Democracy  Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy by
Jose Antonio Cheibub Add to cart US$ 24.00 This book addresses
the following question: why are presidential democracies more
likely to break down than parliamentary ones? Conventional
wisdom among political scientists pointS to the incentives
generated by the form of government itself; the independence of
the executive and legislature that defines presidentialism
generates incentives that are not conducive to the consolidation
of democracy. On the basis of a data set that covers all
democracies between 1946 and 2002, this book demonstrates that
this is not the case: the incentives generated by
presidentialism are as conducive to the consolidation of
democracy as the ones generated by parliamentarism. The book
argues that what kills presidentialism is the fact that it
exists in countries where democracies of any type are not likely
to survive. This book will be of interest to academic resea