 | Chapter Outline
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- Introduction-- Presidential government defined and surveyed
- Presidential and parliamentary systems compared
- Overview
- Responsibility for policy
- Presidential systems and comprehensive policy
- Recruitment of executive leaders
- Flexibility of the political process
- The split executive of parliamentary systems
- Why aren't all democracies parliamentary systems
- Box: Presidential leadership
- Constitutional review and the fragmentation of power
- Need for institution to referee constitutional questions
- Constitutional review is common in systems that fragment power; rare in those that do not
- Constitutions and Power
- Often a "mismatch" between reality and the formal rules set out in formal documents
- domination of parliaments by their cabinets
- the Bundesrat - upper house of German parliament
- Mismatches between reality and formal rules
- Examples
- Presidential government in France
- Presidential government in Mexico
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