Overview
- Presents a unique contribution to our understanding on why some presidents are more successful in winning legislators' support than others.
- Explains how institutional factors such as confidence vote, electoral system, candidate nomination and presidential unilateral power influence the ability of presidents to pass their legislative agendas through comparisons across presidential and semi-presidential systems.
- Covers five presidential and semi-presidential systems such as France, Indonesia, Mexico, Taiwan, and U.S. with a wide variety of institutional arrangements and political dynamics
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics (PASTPRPO)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“This book provides an innovative and relevant cross-country analysis of inter-branch coordination in unified governments, exploring institutional and partisan drivers of legislative cohesion of the government. It challenges the view that unified government raises the legislative success rates of chief executives, and focuses on factors affecting party unity in this context. Joseph Tsai and his contributors develop a framework for analyzing legislative cohesion based on four main institutional factors: confidence vote, electoral system, candidate nomination, and presidential unilateral power. The book offers a clear and interesting approach to interbranch coordination under different institutional conditions. In this way, the theoretical framework opens new avenues for understanding variation in the executive’s success in approving legislation introduced or sponsored by chief executives. In addition, this book can move this scholarship forward by enlarging the empirical comparison of unified government and inter-branch coordination across presidential and semi-presidential systems.”
—Magna Inácio, Associate Professor at Universidade Federal, De Minas Gerais, Brazil
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Jung-Hsiang Tsai is Professor of Political Science at the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. He earned his PhD in Political Science from Boston University, USA. His research interests include comparative semi-presidential studies, comparative presidential studies, Sino-US relationships, and qualitative political methods. His works have been published in Crime, Law, and Social Change, French Politics, and Democratization.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Presidents, Unified Government and Legislative Control
Editors: Jung-Hsiang Tsai
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67525-7
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), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67524-0Published: 29 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67527-1Published: 30 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67525-7Published: 28 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-515X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 181
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Leadership, Legislative and Executive Politics, Electoral Politics