I: British Parliamentarism versus US Presidentialism;
Douglas V. Verney: Parliamentary Government and Presidential Government;
Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws;
James Madison: The Federalist No. 47 and No. 48;
Alexander Hamilton: The Federalist No. 70;
Robert A. Dahl: At the Convention: The Paucity of Models;
Walter Bagehot: The English Constitution: The Cabinet;
Woodrow Wilson: Committee or Cabinet Government?;
Harold J. Laski: The President and Congress;
Committee on the Constitutional System: A Bicentennial Analysis of the American Political Structure;
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.: Leave the Constitution alone;
II: Presidentialism in Latin America:
Simon Bolivar: The Angostura Address;
Harry Kantor: Efforts made by various Latin American countries to limit the power of the President;
Scott Mainwaring: Presidentialism in Latin America;
Juan J. Linz: The perils of Presidentialism;
Carlos Santiago Nino: Ideas and attempts at reforming the Presidentialist system of government in Latin America;
Bolivar Lamounier: Presidentialism and Parliamentarism in Brazil;
III: Semi-Presidentialism and Other Intermediate Forms:
Charles de Gaulle: The Bayeux Manifesto;
Maurice Duverger: A new political system model: Semi-presidential government;
Woodrow Wilson: Cabinet government in the United States;
A. Jeyaratnam Wilson: The Gaullist system in Asia: The constitution of Sri Lanka;
Council for the Consolidation of Democracy: Constitutional reform in Argentina;
Jean Blondel: Dual leadership in the contemporary world; Constitutional Reform Committee: Report on the 1848 Draft Constitution of Switzerland;
Jose Batlle y Ordonez: A collegial executive for Uruguay;
IV: Parliamentarism and Presidentialism in Africa, Asia, and Europe:
Constitution Drafting Committee: Report on the Draft Constitution of Nigeria;
Vasant Sathe: For a directly elected President of India;
J.P.A. Gruijters: The case for a directly elected Prime Minister in the Netherlands;
International Forum of the Israel Diaspora Institute: Direct election of the Prime Minister;
V: Systematic Evidence: Broadly Comparative and Multivariate Analyses:
Donald L. Horowitz: Comparing democratic systems;
Seymour Martin Lipset: The centrality of political culture;
Juan J. Linz: The virtues of Parliamentarism;
Fred W. Riggs: Presidentialism: A problematic regime type;
G. Bingham Powell Jr.: Contemporary democracies: Participation, stability, and violence;
Thomas A. Baylis: Governing by committee: Collegial leadership in advanced societies.
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