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  • 9 - Democratic Design and the Twin Contemporary Challenges of Fragmented and Unduly Concentrated Political Power

  • from Part III - Specific Institutions
  • Edited by Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago, Aziz Z. Huq, University of Chicago, Tarun Khaitan, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book:
    The Entrenchment of Democracy
    Published online:
    16 December 2024
    Print publication:
    05 December 2024, pp 171-187
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    This chapter explores the promise of “semi-parliamentarism” by asking whether it can be adapted to suggest versions of non-parliamentary regimes that better reconcile the values of democratic governance and address the contemporary challenges of party polarization and fragmentation. The focus is not on which regime type is superior overall but on how to maximize the potential benefits of semi-parliamentarism through ambitious, but not wholesale, design reforms in the face of current democratic challenges. Specifically, I argue that semi-parliamentarism’s core feature of “symmetrical” and “incongruent” bicameralism is detachable from parliamentarism and that, with suitable customization, is available in presidential and semi-presidential versions that may reduce the pathologies of party systems and better balance the underlying values of democratic governance than existing regimes of these types. The adapted forms may also address some of the causes, and resist some of the consequences, of democratic backsliding in general and authoritarian populism in particular.