Semi-presidentialism outside Europe

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is semi-presidentialism and where is it found? / Robert Elgie -- The advantages and disadvantages of semi-presidentialism : a West-European perspective / Gianfranco Pasquino -- Semi-presidentialism in young democracies : help or hindrance? / Sophia Moestrup -- Semi-presidentialism in a post-communist context / François Frison-Roche -- Semi-presidentialism in a Francophone context / Gérard Conac -- Semi-presidentialism in Madagascar / Charles Cadoux -- Semi-presidentialism in Niger : gridlock and democratic breakdown : learning from past mistakes / Sophia Moestrup -- Semi-presidentialism and the preservation of ambiguity in post-war Mozambique / Carrie Manning -- Semi-presidentialism in Guinea-Bissau : the lesser of two evils? / Elisabete Azevedo and Lia Nijzink -- Eurasian semi-presidentialism : the development of Kyrgyzstan's model of government / Eugene Huskey -- Semi-presidentialism in Mongolia : trade-offs between stability and governance / Sophia Moestrup and Gombosurengiin Ganzorig -- Semi-presidentialism : easy to choose, difficult to operate : the case of Taiwan / Yu-Shan Wu -- Timor-Leste : semi-presidentialism and the democratic transition in a new, small state / Dennis Shoesmith -- The choice of semi-presidentialism and its consequences / Sophia Moestrup.