Parliamentary Democracy - (Advances in Political Science) by K Beyme (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

'This is a highly useful addition to the literature on parliaments...' - American Political Science Review

'...one of the richest works on the topic of parliamentary democracy...an interesting, well-written and valuable book...' - International Politics

About the Author

KLAUS VON BEYME is Professor at the Institute of Political Science, University of Heidelberg.