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2011.
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Semi-presidentialism is a vague term which may refer to several different forms of government. This paper explores only one special type of semi-presidentialism, and shows that, even under similar institutional arrangements, actual practices may differ greatly. The two cases, France and Taiwan, share the basic features of such a system, though the French president has more powers than his counterpart in Taiwan. But interestingly, when the presidents party/coalition has been in the minority in parliament, the French president has frequently chosen to compromise and to cohabit ate with a prime minister supported by the parliamentary majority, while his counterpart in Taiwan has decided to confront the parliament by forming a minority government. As argued in the paper this can be accounted for by strategic behavior on the part of the president and the parliamentary majority in manipulating the loophole created by such a system. History and the nature of social cleavages have something to do with it as well.
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107448
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2011.
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When a semi-presidential constitution is adopted in a young democracy, there
is much discussion about the relationship between semi-presidentialism and the
stability of the democracy. The Weimar Republic was one of the original semipresidential regimes. Although the Weimar Constitution was meant to provide
for a parliamentary system, the actual exercise of the Weimar Constitution
was consistent with semi-presidentialism. Taiwan is a young democracy that
has a semi-presidential constitution. The design of Taiwan's constitution
resembles that of the Weimar Constitution. The first version was a revision of
the Weimar Constitution and was primarily parliamentary. However, with the
1997 constitutional revisions, Taiwan's constitutional structure acquired many
semi-presidential features. This essay argues that Taiwan's constitution was
originally inspired by the Weimar model, and with revision in 1997, became
very Weimar-like. It attempts to introduce the design, revisions, and functions
of the constitution in Taiwan.
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