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It has been seen that both presidentialism and parliamentarism may fail us, especially in their pure forms. It is from both these ends, then, that we are prompted to seek a ‘mixed’ solution, a political form that stands at the cross-roads between presidential and parliamentary systems and draws from both. This mixed form has come to be known — I think tellingly — as semi-presidentialism.1 While we should not read the label too literally, it does convey that it is from the vantage point of presidentialism, not from the vantage point of parliamentarism, that our mixed system is best understood and construed. For the argument flows more cogently from the top down than from the parliamentary base up.

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Sartori, G. (1994). Semi-Presidentialism. In: Comparative Constitutional Engineering. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22861-4_7

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