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Comparative politics

the argument that presidential government combined with a fragmented multiparty system is especially prone to deadlock and democratic breakdown.

In comparative politics, difficult combination refers to the argument that presidential government combined with a fragmented multiparty system is especially prone to deadlock and democratic breakdown. This meaning comes from Mainwaring (1993) in Comparative Political Studies.[1]

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argument3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs breakdown3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs combination1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Mainwaring, S. (1993). Presidentialism, Multipartism, and Democracy: The Difficult Combination. Comparative Political Studies, 26(2), 198-228. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414093026002003

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