Presidents Parties and Prime Ministers

This Book Provides A Framework For Analyzing The Impact Of The Separation Of Powers On Party Politics. Conventional Political Science Wisdom Assumes That Democracy Is Impossible Without Political Parties Because Parties Fulfill All The Key Functions Of Democratic Governance. They Nominate Candidates Coordinate Campaigns Aggregate Interests Formulate And Implement Policy And Manage Government Power. When Scholars First Asserted The Essential Connection Between Parties And Democracy Most Of The WorldS Democracies Were Parliamentary. Yet By The Dawn Of The Twenty-First Century Most Democracies Had Directly Elected Presidents. Given This If Parties Are Truly Critical To Democracy Then A Systematic Understanding Of How The Separation Of Powers Shapes Parties Is Long Overdue. David J. Samuels And Matthew S. Shugart Provide A Theoretical Framework For Analyzing Variation In The Relationships Among Presidents Parties And Prime Ministers Across The WorldS Democracies Revealing The Important Ways That The Separation Of Powers Alters Party Organization And Behavior Thereby Changing The Nature Of Democratic Representation And Accountability.