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"Contents" [2019] ELECD 1880; in Popovic, Dragoljub (ed), "Comparative Government" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) v

Book Title: Comparative Government

Editor(s): Popović, Dragoljub

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
Foreword vii
Acknowledgements ix
Table of cases x
Table of legislation xi

Introduction 1
1. The discipline 1
2. The method 5

1 General approach 7
1. The state and the government 7
2. The modern state and its specific features 8
3. The nation state as the prevailing form of modern state 19

2 The rise of parliamentary government 25
1. Shaping the pattern in English constitutional history 25
2. The Westminster democracy 35
3. Extending the pattern of parliamentary government 43
4. Weak points of parliamentary government 46

3 Contemporary parliamentary government 49
1. European monarchies: the example of Sweden 49
2. European republics 57
3. Asian examples 83
4. The exceptional case of South Africa 111
5. Parliamentary government worldwide ­ present stage and
the problem of definition 122

4 Presidential government 130
1. Foundation of the United States of America 130
2. Branches of the national government 141
3. Overall review of the presidential form of government in
the United States 155
4. Transplanting the pattern 157
5. Conclusions on presidential government 162

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5 Semi-presidential government 164
1. Overcoming the crisis of parliamentary government 164
2. Combining the patterns of parliamentary and presidential
forms of government 167

6 Directorial government 196
1. Origins of the pattern 196
2. Constitution of Switzerland 196
3. Attempts at transplanting the model 207

7 Power-sharing government 209
1. Origins 209
2. Some recent experiences 211
3. Comparing the examples 232
4. Features of consensus ...