Theory and Typology, Challenges and Consequences of Semi-Presidentialism within Republican Form of Government and Prospects for its Reformation in Ukraine
Theory and Typology, Challenges and Consequences of Semi-Presidentialism within Republican Form of Government and Prospects for its Reformation in Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to theoretical, methodological and empirical analysis of the essence, nature and types, constitutional and political challenges and consequences of different republican systems of government. Special attention is paid to theoretical and empirical comparative analysis of semi-presidentialism. The author singles out different varieties of semi-presidential system of government and identifies the examples of different types of semi-presidentialism in the world. The researcher uses several approaches to the classification of semi-presidentialism: formal, factual and both formal and factual. The usage of different types of semi-presidentialism is tested within the parameters of their performance, including the indicators of political rights and civil liberties, governance effectiveness and human development. On this basis, the researcher builds a synthetic model of semi-presidentialism, which is the sum of various interinstitutional relations, each of which has a decisive role in assessing the quality and efficiency of semi-presidentialism. This author applies the model on Ukraine in 1991-2015 and stresses that the Ukrainian semi-presidentialism is extremely unstable that is manifested in frequent changes of its designs and types. In addition, the researcher pays special attention to the prospects of semi-presidentialism reforming in Ukraine given the global experience of semi-presidentialism and its various options.

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