This book questions the reasons why presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones.

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Proposals for power-sharing constitutions remain controversial, as highlighted by current debates in Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Sudan. This book updates and

After the collapse of communism, some thirty countries scrambled to craft democratic constitutions. Surprisingly, the constitutional model they most often chose

Addressing the current debate regarding the liabilities and merits of presidential government, this work asks: does presidentialism make it less likely that dem