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Project leader

Thomas Sedelius

Project Members

Jenny Åberg
Kjetil Duvold
Tapio Raunio

Project Period

01-01-2015 - 31-03-2019

Project Status

Completed

Description

This project addresses the role of semi-presidentialism in new democracies and hybrid regimes. Semi-presidentialism includes both a popularly elected president and a prime minister and cabinet accountable to the parliament and has become an extremely popular form of government. Still, the implications of semi-presidentialism in transitional regimes remain profoundly understudied. The overall purpose of this comparative project is to provide new theoretical and empirical knowledge on the implications of semi-presidentialism in transitional regimes. Our aim is to examine to what extent and in what ways the institutional interaction
between the president, prime minister and parliament, matter to governability (in terms of policy-making performance and cabinet stability) in semi-presidential regimes. Based on a set of theoretically derived hypotheses the project combines a quantitative analysis including all (about 50) semi-presidential countries around the world, with a most-similar and pair-wise comparison of four post-communist cases: two EU democracies with premier-presidential systems, Poland and Romania, and two, less than democratic, countries with president-parliamentary systems, Ukraine and Russia.

Keywords

semipresidentialism, president, premiärminister, policy, transition, Central- och Östeuropa, semi-presidentialism, president, prime-minister, policy, transition, Central and Eastern Europe

Research Profile

Intercultural Studies

Subject

Political Science

Financiers

Vetenskapsrådet

Publications

Åberg, Jenny, Sedelius, Thomas. A Structured Review of Semi-Presidential Studies : Debates, Results, and Missing Pieces, British Journal of Political Science, 2020, Vol. 50, No. 3, 1111-1136. Article : refereed.
Raunio, Tapio, Sedelius, Thomas. Presidents and Cabinets : Coordinating Executive Leadership in Premier-Presidential Regimes, Political Studies Review, 2020, Vol. 18, No. 1, 53-70. Article : refereed.
Raunio, Tapio, Sedelius, Thomas. Semi-Presidential Policy-Making in Europe : Executive Coordination and Political Leadeship, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Book.
Raunio, Tapio, Sedelius, Thomas. Shifting Power-Centres of Semi-Presidentialism : Exploring Executive Coordination in Lithuania, Government and Opposition, 2019, Vol. 54, No. 4, 637-660. Article : refereed.
Raunio, Tapio, Sedelius, Thomas. Institutions, Coordination, and Leadership, Part of: Semi-Presidential Policy-Making in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Chapter of book.
Raunio, Tapio, Sedelius, Thomas. The Semi-Presidential Cases in Comparative Context, Part of: Semi-Presidential Policy-Making in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Chapter of book.
Raunio, Tapio, Sedelius, Thomas. Formal Coordination Mechanisms, Part of: Semi-Presidential Policy-Making in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Chapter of book.
Raunio, Tapio, Sedelius, Thomas. Informal Avenues of Influence, Part of: Semi-Presidential Policy-Making in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Chapter of book.
Raunio, Tapio, Sedelius, Thomas. Decision-Making in Foreign and Security Policies and EU Affairs, Part of: Semi-Presidential Policy-Making in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Chapter of book.
Sedelius, Thomas, Åberg, Jenny. Semi-Presidential Systems, Oxford Bibliographies, 2019.
Sedelius, Thomas. Semi-Presidentialism and Governability in Transitional Regimes : Final Project Report, 2019. Report.
Choudhry, Sujit, Sedelius, Thomas, Kyrychenko, Julia. Semi-presidentialism and Inclusive Governance in Ukraine : Reflections for Constitutional Reform, 2018. Report.
Sedelius, Thomas, Åberg, Jenny. Eastern Europe’s semi-presidential regimes, Part of: The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics, Routledge, 2018. Chapter of book.
Sedelius, Thomas, Linde, Jonas. Unravelling Semi-Presidentialism : Democracy and Government Performance in Four Distinct Regime Types, Democratization, 2018, Vol. 25, No. 1, 136-157. Article : refereed.
Åberg, Jenny. Imitating the neighbors? : A multinominal logistic regression analysis of regime type choices as related to time and space., 2017. Conference paper.
Duvold, Kjetil, Sedelius, Thomas. Between Institutions and Personalities : Determinants of Trust in the Baltic Presidents, 2017. Conference paper : refereed.
Åberg, Jenny, Sedelius, Thomas. Studying semi-presidentialism : A systematic review of research directions and future challenges, 2016. Conference paper : refereed.
Åberg, Jenny, Sedelius, Thomas. A Systematic Review of Semi-Presidential Studies : Struggling to Move beyond Linz, 2016. Conference paper : refereed.
Sedelius, Thomas, Linde, Jonas. Unpacking Semi-Presidentialism : Government performance and democracy in four different regime types, Swepsa 2016 : 2016. Conference paper : refereed.
Sedelius, Thomas. Review : Cohabitation and conflicting politics in French policymaking, 2016.
Sedelius, Thomas. Ukrainas konstitutionella sicksackande : Regimförändring och partiutveckling under semipresidentialism, Nordisk Østforum, 2016, Vol. 30, No. 1, 18-37. Article : refereed.
Sedelius, Thomas. Semi-presidential shifts in Ukraine : institutional perils and party presidentialization, 2015. Conference paper : refereed.
Sedelius, Thomas. Party presidentialization in Ukraine, Part of: The presidentialization of political parties, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Chapter of book.

Research Project: Semi-Presidentialism and Governability in Transitional Regimes