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Ondrej Kucera

Is Taiwan a Presidential System?

Ce document sera publié en ligne en texte intégral le 1 août 2009.

Résumé

This article considers definitions of semi-presidential systems, distinguishing prescriptive criteria (constitutional regime) and descriptive criteria (political system). Applying prescriptive criteria to the Taiwanese situation, it concludes that the Taiwanese Constitution prescribes a semi-presidential regime. The article then analyses the descriptive features of Taiwan’s political system. The conclusions are enhanced by a close analysis of the situation in the aftermath of Taiwan’s 2004 parliamentary elections and also from the events in the spring of 2006 (the delegation of constitutional powers and recall motion). Taiwan’s political system exhibits both very strong majoritarian and delegative tendencies, the main reasons for the lack of functionality under the present constitutional regime. That the political system is resistant to change means, for this article, that the only possibility for democratic government functionality for Taiwan is a change of constitutional regime to one that is parliamentary1.

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Ondrej Kucera, « Is Taiwan a Presidential System? », China perspectives, n°66, 2006, [En ligne], mis en ligne le 1 août 2009. URL : http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/document1036.html. Consulté le 24 juillet 2008.

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