The book analyzes the presidencies of three neighboring Central European countries – Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia – in the context of their inter

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This book questions the reasons why presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones.

This book examines the relationship between semi-presidentialism and democratic performance. Semi-presidentialism - where a constitution provides for both a dir

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