Overview
- Examines how leadership in foreign and EU policies work in the three semi-presidential regimes
- Emphasizes the role of institutions without neglecting other variables such as party system dynamics or the broader political culture
- Contributes to literature on semi-presidential regimes, presidents, and policy-making
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics (PASTPRPO)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- semi-presidentialism
- institutional coordination
- Finland
- Lithuania
- Romania
- public administration
- political leadership
- foreign policy analysis
- intra-executive conflict
- public opinion
- formal intra-executive coordination
- administrative coordination
- formal institutions
- agenda-setting initiatives
- presidential activism
- security policy
- EU affairs
- policy failure
- coordination failure
- presidential activism
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Reviews
Raunio and Sedelius’ study of intra-executive relations in semi-presidential systems is innovative in many ways. Many existing studies have focused on cohabitation as the main variable inexplaining levels of intra-executive conflicts under semi-presidentialism, and used quantitative analysis as a tool for analysis. Conversely, Raunio and Sedelius show that coordination mechanisms between president and prime minister is contingent on many other factors, including institutional constraints, the importance of critical junctures and path dependency on institutional rules and the perceived role of the presidency in policymaking, the staffing of the office of the presidency, or the type of policy under scrutiny (domestic versus foreign policy). Moreover, Raunio and Sedelius employ a state-of-the-art qualitative comparative analysis of Finland, Lithuania, and Romania, and rely on interviews of executive actors in these countries, to test their theoretical model. The theoretical framework and astute methodological approach make this book stand out from existing studies on semi-presidentialism, and is therefore a must-read for scholars and constitutional framers interested in this type of institutional arrangement.” (Sébastien G. Lazardeux, Department of Political Science and Legal Studies, St. John Fisher College, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Tapio Raunio is Professor of Political Science at Tampere University, Finland. His research interests include legislatures and political parties, the Europeanization of domestic politics, semi-presidentialism, and the Finnish political system. He has published articles in many leading journals, including European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Common Market Studies, Party Politics, Scandinavian Political Studies, and West European Politics. He is a Steering Committee Member of the ECPR Standing Group on Presidential Politics.
Thomas Sedelius is Professor of Political Science at Dalarna University, Sweden. His research focuses on political institutions in new democracies and transitional regimes. His previous work on semi-presidentialism has appeared in leading journals such as British Journal of Political Science, Democratization, and Government and Opposition. In 2015, his article with Olga Mashtaler “Two Decades of Semi-Presidentialism” received the East European Politics Prize. He is a Steering Committee Member of the ECPR Standing Group on Presidential Politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Semi-Presidential Policy-Making in Europe
Book Subtitle: Executive Coordination and Political Leadership
Authors: Tapio Raunio, Thomas Sedelius
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16431-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16430-0Published: 30 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16433-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16431-7Published: 17 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-515X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 169
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Leadership, Governance and Government, Democracy, Foreign Policy