Full article: Is assembly-independent government good for democracy? Bhutan, Suriname and Switzerland in comparative perspective www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Is assembly-independent government good for democracy? Bhutan, Suriname and Switzerland in comparative perspective

Assembly-independent government (AIG) is a rare and understudied hybrid of parliamentarism and presidentialism. The political executive is indirectly authorised through the elected assembly, rather...

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@pluggedchris.bsky.social zur 5%-Hürde: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

6,8 Millionen wertlose Stimmen: Die Fünfprozenthürde entmündigt Wähler

Ist die Fünfprozenthürde noch zeitgemäß? Wenn immer mehr Stimmen von Bürgern verloren gehen, verlieren der Bundestag und die Landesparlamente an Legitimation. Reformen sind dringend geboten. Ein Vorsc...

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What is a vote of no confidence, really? A deductive approach and global perspective www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) What is a vote of no confidence, really? A deductive approach and global perspective

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Other stuff was detailed points about other parts of the argument. Haven't checked in detail how they revised these. BTW, on their argument and semi-parliamentarism, this just appeared: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Semi-Parliamentarian Democratic Meritocracy Versus Representative Democracy - Res Publica

This article builds on the regime type comparison conducted recently by Dimitri Landa and Ryan Pevnick and presents a well-designed semi-parliamentarian democratic meritocracy as a theoretically plaus...

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Great article on methodological pluralism that articulates exactly my thinking about the relevance of different kinds of research in times where so much emphasis is placed on causal inference journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New working paper w/ @denis-cohen.bsky.social @rantuna.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com! *Does publicly refusing to cooperate with the far right only strengthen it?* A widespread belief says yes. In this paper, we test it based on a natural experiment from Spain. tinyurl.com/5azkfnas [1/6]

Democratization paper explaining why - Switzerland is a 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 democracy - proposals for a "parliamentary" USA 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 parliamentary - standard definitions of the 𝗻𝗼-𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲 are wrong - a personalist autocracy 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 presidential elections ... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Is assembly-independent government good for democracy? Bhutan, Suriname and Switzerland in comparative perspective

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If you found my thread the radical right's #10MioSchweiz prop insightful & if you happen to be in Berlin next week, plz join my talk @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. I will discuss what the vote tells us about once-consociational Swiss democracy All welcome! www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/fors...

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Japanese article on semi-parliamentarism: www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

トランプ的な強権指導者、日本に生まれず？「半議院内閣制」の新理論 - 日本経済新聞

日本はトランプ米大統領のような強権的な指導者が誕生しにくいとされる。根拠の一つは政治体制が「半議院内閣制」と呼ばれる新たな分類に合致するという学説だ。ポピュリズムとうまく付き合い、政策の実行力と権力の抑制力を兼ね備える体制だという評価もある。妥当だろうか。高市早苗首相は2月の衆院選後に「政策実現に前向きな野党の皆様にも協力をお願いしたい」と呼びかけた。衆院で圧倒的な議席を得たものの、少数与党の

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I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

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Gähn. Man würde sich wünschen, Philip & Co. würden mal so stringent & balanciert argumentieren, wie sie es einfordern. Das Narrativ des einseitigen Diskurses dient dazu, sich in der eigenen Einseitigkeit einen schlanken Fuß zu machen - und sich dafür auf die Schulter zu klopfen. shorturl.at/i8T4P

AfD-Verbotsverfahren: Trugschluss der wehrhaften Demokratie

Die Waffen der wehrhaften Demokratie taugen nicht für politische Kurzschlüsse. Wer sie vorschnell zieht, könnte den Rechtsstaat eher treffen als dessen Gegner.

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@ganghof.bsky.social Bangladesh recently voted in a general election and in a referendum to amend its constitution based on the July Charter. Of particular interest: a new 100-seat upper house elected by PR en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Ba... @kjephd.bsky.social @northeasternblot.bsky.social

2026 Bangladeshi constitutional referendum - Wikipedia

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My beef is with open lists, and more generally with how enamoured we are of "personalisation" of electoral rules, in view of limited evidence that it actually makes a difference, other than making the act of voting more cumbersome to voters (possibly compounding participation inequalities).

When an email makes your day.

Unsere neue Ausgabe zum Thema #Konservatismus ist online! Mit Texten von @mariamlau.bsky.social, M. Steber @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social, @tbiebricher.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social, @ursulamuench.bsky.social, M. Bitschnau, @jschaeuble.bsky.social u. A. Meiritz. Morgen gedruckt im "Parlament".

Im feierlichen Rahmen ihres Neujahrsempfangs ist die Universität Potsdam mit dem Prädikat „Gleichstellungsstarke Hochschule“ ausgezeichnet worden: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachricht... #gleichstellung #gleichstellungsarbeit #frauenanteil #professorinnenprogramm #professorin #potsdam

Universität Potsdam als „Gleichstellungsstarke Hochschule“ ausgezeichnet

Medieninformation 23-01-2026 / Nr. 011

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The Australian or Japanese model is called semi-parliamentarism by @ganghof.bsky.social in a great book; there's an article version too: ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Inference to the best explanation in style with Sherlock Holmes @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social & House MD @juliusk.bsky.social :)

Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Freue mich sehr auf diese Diskussion mit @econlessmann.bsky.social, @juliusk.bsky.social, und Luisa Doerr. tu-dresden.de/bu/wirtschaf...

1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Denmark's PM urges Trump to 'stop the threats' of annexing Greenland

The prime minister of Denmark called on Trump to “stop the threats” of the U.S. annexing Greenland after renewed comments garnered international attention.

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Die Regierung hat jedes Recht zu einem Wechsel in der Migrationspolitik. Aber das ist so unglaublich bürokratisch, unethisch und migrationspolitisch sinnlos. www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

Afghanen aus Aufnahmeprogrammen wird Einreise nach Deutschland verwehrt

Manche Afghanen haben mehr als zwei Jahre in Pakistan auf ihre Ausreise nach Deutschland gewartet. Nun hat Berlin sie abgelehnt. Die Betroffenen fürchten das Schlimmste.

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📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database! The data now covers - > 3.000 parties - 1.100 parliamentary elections - 402 presidential elections - 2.044 cabinets across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31). All info: ppeg.wzb.eu We hope that data is helpful to the community!

Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats

Which rules do you prefer, and why?

Yanina Welp@welpita.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Institutions really matter! If there were no 2º round in Chile, Jara (a communist) would win. Since there is a 2º round, the one with the best chances is whoever comes in second from the right.

"But the SVP is different": I hear this often, especially compared to A/fD. But 2024 data confirm different story: programmatically, the overlaps are strikingly close. The real difference is govt participation, not ideology. And yet, many still label the SVP as a center-right ("bürgerlich") party

Rahel Freiburghaus@rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 2y ago

#POLITKOLUMNE: Another focus on US hyperpolarization, but what may be lesser known: Once-consociational Switzerland has the most polarized party system in Western Europe. Switzerland’s governing coalition includes four parties that are the furthest apart ideologically www.derbund.ch/parteiensyst...

If it weren't so sad, presidentialism would be kind of funny.

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Unprecedented corruption

New (sort of) paper on the "Democratic" Separation of Powers for the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook on the Separation of Powers www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Presidentialism, Parliamentarism and Beyond Towards a Democratic Theory of the Democratic Separation of Powers

PDF | This chapter discusses the distinction between presidential, parliamentary and hybrid forms of government. The term “separation of powers” is... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

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..sollte sich ernsthaft mit den Möglichkeiten flexibler Mehrheiten beschäftigen. Sie lindern das Demokratieproblem der Brandmauer und die Demokratiegefahr durch die AfD. Mehr dazu im Frühjahr 2026 in meinem Buch.

インタビューが毎日紙版にも掲載されました．昨日出たWeb版とたぶん同内容です．制度の力その他で政党数を抑制するにも限界がある(もうそれではおさえこめない時代に至っている)ので，政治運営の引き出しは多い方がいいよね，という話のつもりです． mainichi.jp/articles/202...

多党化ニッポン：2大政党だけが民主主義ではない　政治への要請、多様に　網谷龍介・津田塾大教授 | 毎日新聞

交流サイト（SNS）で多様な民意が可視化され、それを反映するように日本の政治が「多党化」し、不安定さを増している。日本より先に少数与党や多党化に直面してきた欧州にヒントはないか。欧州政治に詳しい網谷龍介・津田塾大教授に聞いた。【聞き手・安部志帆子、田中裕之】

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