Presidents, Unified Government and Legislative Control

by Jung-Hsiang Tsai (Editor)

Overview

This book aims to explain why some presidents are more successful than others in winning the support of legislators during periods of unified government. This book covers five presidential and semi-presidential systems such as France, Indonesia, Mexico, Taiwan, and the U.S. with a wide variety of institutional arrangements and political dynamics. This book elaborates on explaining how institutional factors such as confidence vote, electoral system, candidate nomination and presidential unilateral power influence the ability of presidents to pass their legislative agendas through comparisons across presidential and semi-presidential systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030675240
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	06/29/2021
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	181
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Jung-Hsiang Tsai is Professor of Political Science at the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. He earned his PhD in Political Science from Boston University, USA. His research interests include comparative semi-presidential studies, comparative presidential studies, Sino-US relationships, and qualitative political methods. His works have been published in Crime, Law, and Social Change, French Politics, and Democratization.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Presidents, Unified Government and Legislative Control.- 2. A Gently Slopped Leadership: Parliamentary Support for Presidents in France.- 3. Power Scope and Party Disunity of Semi-Presidentialism in Taiwan: The Perspective of Political Participation of Elites and the Masses.- 4. President and Congress in the Period of Unified Government in America.- 5. Political Institutions, Democratization, and Incumbent Party Cohesion under Unified Governments in Mexico.- 6. Consensual Decision-Making and No Rebels: Presidentialism in Indonesia.- 7. Presidents, Unified Government and Legislative Control: What Have We Learned?.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This book provides an innovative and relevant cross-country analysis of inter-branch coordination in unified governments, exploring institutional and partisan drivers of legislative cohesion of the government. It challenges the view that unified government raises the legislative success rates of chief executives, and focuses on factors affecting party unity in this context. Joseph Tsai and his contributors develop a framework for analyzing legislative cohesion based on four main institutional factors: confidence vote, electoral system, candidate nomination, and presidential unilateral power. The book offers a clear and interesting approach to interbranch coordination under different institutional conditions. In this way, the theoretical framework opens new avenues for understanding variation in the executive’s success in approving legislation introduced or sponsored by chief executives. In addition, this book can move this scholarship forward by enlarging the empirical comparison of unified government and inter-branch coordination across presidential and semi-presidential systems.”

—Magna Inácio, Associate Professor at Universidade Federal, De Minas Gerais, Brazil