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The Presidentialization of Politics - A Comparative Study of Modern Democracies (Paperback, Revised)
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The Presidentialization of Politics - A Comparative Study of Modern Democracies (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Comparative Politics
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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 political agenda, and the majority situation in
parliament, there are several structural factors which are
relatively uniform across modern nations. First, the
internationalization of modern politics (which is particularly
pronounced within the European Union) has led to an 'executive
bias' of the political process which has strengthened the role of
political top elites vis-a-vis their parliamentary groups and/or
their parties. Their predominance has been amplified further by the
vastly expanded steering capacities of state machineries which have
severely reduced the scope of effective parliamentary control. At
the same time, the declining stability of political alignments has
increased the proportion of citizens whose voting decisions are not
constrained by long-standing party loyalties. In conjunction with
the mediatization of politics, this has increased the capacity of
political leaders to by-pass their party machines and to appeal
directly to voters.
As a result, three interrelated processes have led to a political
process increasingly moulded by the inherent logic of
presidentialism: increasing leadership power and autonomy within
the political executive; increasing leadership power and autonomy
within political parties; andincreasingly leadership-centred
electoral processes.
The book presents evidence for this process of presidentialization
for 14 modern democracies (including the US and Canada). While
there are substantial cross-national differences, the overall
thesis holds: modern democracies are increasingly following a
presidential logic of governance through which leadership is
becoming more central and more powerful, but also increasingly
dependent on successful immediate appeal to the mass public.
Implications for democratic theory are considered.
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