@article {64446,
	title = {Constitutional Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy},
	journal = {Constitutional Political Economy },
	volume = {16},
	number = {4},
	year = {2005},
	month = {Dec 1, 2005},
	abstract = {Many emerging democracies across the globe are scrambling to craft new constitutions. The modal constitution being chosen in this most recent wave of democratization is a rather unknown, and under{\textendash}theorized, type: semi{\textendash}presidentialism. This article brings semi{\textendash}presidentialism back to comparative constitutional theory, distinguishing it from presidentialism and parliamentarism, and guarding against its hasty export to new democracies. This article details when, and why, semi{\textendash}presidentialism can be problematic from the standpoints of democracy, constitutionalism, and the protection of fundamental rights; and the conditions under which it can be supportive of them. After establishing the analytical framework, this article compares developments in two important historical cases of regime change under semi{\textendash}presidentialism, cases which have also been among the most influential countries for European politics in the twentieth century: the French Fifth Republic and Weimar Germany. The concluding section draws the evidence together.},
	author = {Skach, Cindy}
}
