This chapter surveys the legal candidacy requirements for the selection of presidential candidates in Europe’s semi-presidential democracies before turning to a more detailed analysis of party processes for the selection of presidential candidates in …
Emmanuel Macron’s election as President of the Republic and the formation of a government that includes a mix of politicians from parties on the left and right of the political spectrum, as well as a significant share of non-partisan ministers, has …
Although often conceived as nonpartisan actors, presidents wield considerable political and institutional powers in parliamentary and semipresidential democracies. Do they interfere in the government-formation process in such a way as to change the …
Our analysis shows that Polish parties do vary quite substantially in their level of presidentialization. We also find that the genetic approach appears to be a good explanation for much of that variation. Poland was a difficult test for the genetic …