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Presidents vs. Parliaments: The Virtues of Parliamentarism

Presidents vs. ParliamentsThe Virtues of Parliamentarism Juan J. Linz (bio) The critical comments that Professor Horowitz and Professor Lipset have offered on my essay provide stimulating contributions to the debate over the respective merits of various forms of democratic politics. This debate is most timely, as controversy seems to be subsiding about the merits of democracy versus other types of government. My essay, itself an abbreviated version of a much longer paper still in progress, was meant as a spur to further study of the problem.1 By raising more questions than can be answered give…