Parliamentary Democracy
Democratization, Destabilization, Reconsolidation, 1789-1999
Authors: Beyme, K.
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- About this book
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Parliamentary Democracy provides a comparative study of the parliamentary regimes since 1789. The book covers the road to parliamentarization of former constitutional monarchies and the creation of parliamentary regimes by exercising the constitution-making power of the people. What has been called democratization in most of the 'transitology' literature was until 1918 mostly only 'parliamentarization'. Democratization of the regimes frequently caused a certain destabilization of the parliamentary regimes by new parties and extremist movement entering the political arena. This is the first book to cover the entire range of parliamentary systems, including the semi-presidential systems.
- About the authors
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KLAUS VON BEYME is Professor at the Institute of Political Science, University of Heidelberg.
- Reviews
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'This is a highly useful addition to the literature on parliaments...' - American Political Science Review
'...one of the richest works on the topic of parliamentary democracy...an interesting, well-written and valuable book...' - International Politics
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-3
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Parliamentary Government: the Rise of a Concept
Pages 4-15
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The Parliamentarisation of Representative Governments
Pages 16-37
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The Organisational Basis of Parliamentary Sovereignty
Pages 38-71
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Functions of Parliaments
Pages 72-107
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Parliamentary Democracy
- Book Subtitle
- Democratization, Destabilization, Reconsolidation, 1789-1999
- Authors
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- K. Beyme
- Series Title
- Advances in Political Science
- Copyright
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- Distribution Rights
- Distribution rights are restricted. Dual edition
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-51439-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230514393
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-333-79191-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 248
- Topics
