Date: 2020
Type: Contribution to book
Parliamentary and presidential systems : the role of parties and the danger of authoritarian populism
Ivor CREWE and David SANDERS (eds), Authoritarian populism and liberal democracy, Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 169-183
BLONDEL, Jean, THIEBAULT, Jean-Louis, Parliamentary and presidential systems : the role of parties and the danger of authoritarian populism, in Ivor CREWE and David SANDERS (eds), Authoritarian populism and liberal democracy, Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 169-183
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To flourish under liberal-democratic rule, a parliamentary or a presidential system does not depend primarily on the existence of strong leadership, but on the presence of strong political parties. The continuous existence of parties operating on lively liberal-democratic characteristics is the truly relevant factor: if parties with these characteristics decline, parliamentary and presidential systems are likely to experience crises. Currently, in Europe, some parties of the Right or Left have come to question the norms and/or the institutions of liberal democracies. Such attitudes may result in the rise of ‘populism’, a populism which is typically rather authoritarian and appears to threaten the characteristics of traditional parties, in Britain and other countries. So far ‘authoritarian populism’ has not led to major changes in the structure of liberal-democratic political systems, although this may be because institutional arrangements to replace that structure have not as yet been discovered.
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First online: 7 August 2019
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/64144
Full-text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17997-7_11
ISBN: 9783030179960; 9783030179977
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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