TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beyme,Klaus von
TI  - Parliamentary democracy: democratization, destabilization, reconsolidation, 1789-1999 
T2  - Advances in political science /  International Political Science Association
SN  - 0312227795
AV  - JF1051 .B49 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - [Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, New York, N.Y.
PB  - Macmillan, St. Martin's Press], Published in associacion with International Political Science Association
KW  - Representative government and representation
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Comparative government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-242) and index
N2  - Parliamentary Democracy provides a comparative study of the parliamentary regimes since 1789. The book covers the road to parliamentarization of former constitutional monarchies and the creation of parliamentary regimes by exercising the constitution-making power of the people. What has been called democratization in most of the 'transitology' literature was until 1918 mostly only 'parliamentarization'. Democratization of the regimes frequently caused a certain destabilization of the parliamentary regimes by new parties and extremist movement entering the political arena. This is the first book to cover the entire range of parliamentary systems, including the semi-presidential systems
ER  -