Three Constitutional Programs Applied against Political Crisis: Systems of Government and Governmental Stability in Large Democracies

The paper presents a comparative investigation on the political institutions of the 18 largest democracies in population and Portugal. Subsequently it assesses the role of these institutional configurations in governmental stability. Two views on government systems are being proposed: (a) the tradit...

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Autor: Neftali Corte de Oliveira, Augusto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repositorio:Revista Direito GV
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/90994
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.fgv.br/revdireitogv/article/view/90994
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Presidential system
parliamentary system
semi-presidential system
comparative politics
Sistema presidencial
sistema parlamentario
sistema semipresidencial
política comparada
Presidencialismo
parlamentarismo
semipresidencialismo
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Sumario:The paper presents a comparative investigation on the political institutions of the 18 largest democracies in population and Portugal. Subsequently it assesses the role of these institutional configurations in governmental stability. Two views on government systems are being proposed: (a) the traditional, presidentialism, parliamentarism, or semi-presidentialism; and (b) a cross-cutting one, focused on constitutional programming against political crises, classified as rigid, resilient, or flexible. The research relies on logistic regression models and panel data. It is proposed that flexible constitutional programs (in parliamentarisms and semi-presidentialism) present lower governmental stability. The results are subjected to a comparative analysis that validates the interpretation and highlights the institutional characteristics whose intentionality is the production of governmental stability.