POLI 2053 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Presidential System, Divided Government, Upper House
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All of these characteristics do hold in a parliamentary system. (3) (1) + (2) = separation of executive and legislative powers (unlike in parliamentary systems, where they are fused). Other points of interest about presidential systems: (1) aside from canada (which is parliamentary), virtually all of north, central, and south. Having a president does not make it a presidential regime. Some countries have a president but do not have a presidential regime. Regime types are not randomly distributed around the world, they are clumped. Regime types are debatable they are subjectively evaluated: different people think the power is distributed differently. Presidential systems usually have a president with a fixed term. We have primary elections to elect the nominee for each party, but this is only because we know exactly when the next election will be. If we did not know when the next election would be, we would not have primary elections.
