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Haiti illustrates the difficulties of making democracy work when constitutional powers are overly skewed in favor of parliament. Haiti has a semipresidential regime1 that provides for extensive limits on presidential powers and numerous checks and balances at different administrative levels. Despite the best intentions of the constituent assembly, democracy in Haiti has suffered repeated setbacks since the 1987 constitution was adopted. This chapter argues that weaknesses of the constitutional design combined with a highly fractured party system have contributed to these setbacks.
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© 2011 Sophia Moestrup
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Moestrup, S. (2011). Haiti. In: Elgie, R., Moestrup, S., Yu-Shan, W. (eds) Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306424_14
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