The Structure of Legislative-Executive Relations: Asia in Comparative Perspective

José Antonio Cheibub and Fernando Limongi

 

This chapter seeks to characterize both the earlier and the later studies of legislative-executive relations. Section II deals with the former, focusing on parliamentary and presidential systems. We also discuss studies of semi-presidential systems, which are of more recent origin but increasingly popular after the end of the Cold War. Yet, as we will show, the research questions guiding studies of semi-presidentialism have been informed primarily by the questions raised by the earlier paradigm contrasting parliamentary and presidential systems. 

In section III we turn to the later studies of legislative-executive relations, highlighting three substantive areas that helped redefine the field. Section IV surveys the scholarship on executive-legislative relations in Asia, highlighting the ways in which the perspective adopted in later studies helps understand some of the cases in the region. Section V concludes the chapter.

 

Chapter 6 (pp. 123-162) in Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg, eds 2014. Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

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