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Abstract

Semi-presidentialism has been established as a suggestive political system for the new emergent democracies in the last decades. The situation in certain semi-presidential states shows the peculiar fact that the system has a tendency to supremacy of the presidential figure, when the presidential majority and the parliamentary majority are in agreement, and has a tendency to predominance of the prime minister when these majorities are opposites. This tendency, considered for many authors as an axiom, is a seductive quality for the constituent powers. However, for the first time, we are noticing that this tendency is being reversed in the case of the Federation of Russia. After the last presidential and parliamentary elections, a government has been constituted with the support of the presidential and parliamentary majorities. Nevertheless, the political activity centre is situated in the prime minister, not in the president of the Republic. The aim of this article is to analyse the ambiguities of semi-presidential regimes through the observation of Russian system evolution in the last years. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Title
LAS AMBIGÜEDADES DEL RÉGIMEN SEMIPRESIDENCIAL: LA EXPERIENCIA DE LA FEDERACIÓN DE RUSIA/THE AMBIGUITY OF SEMI-PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM: THE CASE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Author
Marín, José Antonio Pizarro
Pages
423-447
Publication year
2009
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
ISSN
18869912
e-ISSN
22553436
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1115477545
Copyright
Copyright Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) 2009