Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic.(Book review)

The Historian | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic. By Cindy Skach. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 151. $29.95.)

The author of this study brings a welcome comparative historical perspective to bear on the most popular form of democratic constitution adopted by new states in the wake of communism's collapse: semipresidentialism. This constitutional structure differs from the "pure parliamentarism" typical of most Western European states and the presidential model popular in the Americas ...

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