Where Is Presidential Power? Measuring Presidential Discretion Using Experts
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DOI: 10.1017/s0007123421000296
Abstract: Presidents' unilateral sway over policy is of global concern to scholars, practitioners and the general public. While pending actions provoke media speculation about how much authority presidents have to change policy without legislatures, scholarship has… read more here.
Keywords: policy; discretion; power measuring; presidential discretion ... See more keywords
Checking Presidential Power: Executive Decrees and the Legislative Process in New Democracies. By Valeria Palanza. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 262p. $105.00 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592719003116
Abstract: production with deep seriousness and respect—with striving to understand what members of these cultures themselves see as valuable and beautiful. And yet, however objectively apt or theoretically useful it may be to see jihadis as… read more here.
Keywords: checking presidential; executive decrees; power executive; decrees legislative ... See more keywords
The elephant in the room: offshore companies, liberalisation and extension of presidential power in DR Congo
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2018.1447373
Abstract: Abstract In the Democratic Republic of Congo, donors promoted rapid liberalisation and presidential elections in the aftermath of the war, and after two terms, President Kabila has not left office. This article engages with the… read more here.
Keywords: offshore companies; power; presidential power; congo ... See more keywords
Presidential power and democratization by elections in Africa
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DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2017.1419188
Abstract: ABSTRACT Do elections in and of themselves provide mechanisms for democratization? The “democratization by elections” thesis has been challenged, yet scholars still differ over its substantive effect. Some of the disagreement is over the specific… read more here.
Keywords: elections africa; power democratization; presidential power; democratization ... See more keywords