1st Edition

Parliaments and Government Termination A New Perspective on Parliamentary Democracies

Edited By Reuven Y. Hazan, Bjørn Erik Rasch Copyright 2024
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

This book assesses the larger influences that government termination by parliaments has on executive–legislative relations, claiming that the way in which the governments may be challenged or dismissed has far greater impact than previously understood. The core feature of a parliamentary system is not that governments tend to emerge from the legislatures in some way or another, but their... Read more

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Biography

Reuven Y. Hazan is Professor and Chair in Israeli Politics and Democracy in the Department of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Bjørn Erik Rasch is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway.