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The Turkish Presidential Model: A Hybrid System?

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Comparative management and policy reviews; Parliamentary system; Political systems; Presidential system; Semi-presidential system; Systems of government

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The Turkish Presidential Model is the latest system of government that entered into force in Turkey. This system can be expressed as a Hybrid Model because it can not be explained by one of the theoretically discussed main systems. Since it is a model that does not suit to the pure version of the main prominent democratic systems (parliamentarism, presidency and semi-presidency), but has some common characteristics with all of them, it may be regarded as a hybrid system. This new model brings into force such a system that may be defined as a strong presidential system based on the parliamentary.

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Democratic systems are mainly divided into three groups which are the presidential system (American model), the semi-presidential system (French model), and the parliamentary system (British model). It is not...

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Altunok, M. (2018). The Turkish Presidential Model: A Hybrid System?. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3516-1

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