Presidential System
Abstract
The presidential system has been a subject of intense debate in Latin America, first because some authors claimed that the regimes in the region were a "deviant" or "atrophied" copy of the American model and later because this form of government was identified as one of the factors that explained the collapse of their democracies. This article examines the debate opened by Linz in the eighties over the performance of presidential systems, aiming to bring up some of the elements that are still relevant for studies over presidentialism. Taking into account the main variables that according to these debates determine the role of the government within the institutional framework, it distinguishes among three of its variations: "hyperpresidentialism", "moderate" presidentialism and "attenuated" presidentialism.
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