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Power Fragmentation and Government Stability

under Semi-Presidentialism: A Comparative Study

of Taiwan and the Weimar Republic

Yu-chung Shen

AbstractTraditional studies about the government typologies generally focus on the

presidentialism and the parliamentarism. Maurice Duverger explained the political

structure of the French Fifth Republic using the concept of ‘‘semi-presidential

government’’ in 1976. It is a mixed typology between presidentialism and

parliamentarism. This paper tries to explain government stable under

semi-presidential government by the power fragmentation of the president, cabinet,

and parliament in the cases of Taiwan and the Weimar Republic. The government

may be more stability when the powers are more centralized. The Weimar Republic

has already worked with semi-presidentialism from 1919 to 1933. It is the ancestor

of semi-presidentialism and it is important for us to observe the workings of this

system. Taiwan’s semi-presidential system was created in 1997. In these few years,

the government is unstable and the party system has changed. This paper hopes to

contribute to the understanding of the focus on the concept of the semi-presidenti

alism.

Keywords: semi-presidentialism, power fragmentation, government stability,

Weimar Republic.

Yu-chung Shen is Ph. D. student in the Department of Political Science, National Taiwan

University. His primary research interests are democratization, constitution choice and political

development.