TY - BOOK AU - Cheibub,José Antônio TI - Presidentialism, parliamentarism, and democracy T2 - Cambridge studies in comparative politics SN - 9780511257414 AV - JF255 .C45 2007eb U1 - 321.8 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York, NY PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Presidents KW - Cabinet system KW - Democracy KW - Coalition governments KW - Présidents KW - Cabinet KW - Démocratie KW - Gouvernements de coalition KW - presidents KW - aat KW - democracy KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Ideologies KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Präsidentielles Regierungssystem KW - gnd KW - Parlamentarismus KW - Demokratie KW - Études comparatives KW - ram KW - Gouvernement (science politique) KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index; Introduction -- Presidential, parliamentary, and mixed democracies -- Are the incentives for coalition formation different in parliamentary and presidential democracies? -- Are coalitions rare in presidential democracies? -- Party discipline and form of government -- What makes presidential democracies fragile? -- Conclusion N2 - Are newly established presidential democracies doomed to fail? Advocates of parliamentarism point to the fact that these regimes tend to last longer than presidential ones in support of their positive answer to this question. This book takes a contrary view on this issue UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=178879 ER -