Abstract

ABSTRACT In Patterns of Democracy (Second Edition, Yale University Press, 2012), Arend Lijphart offered eight forms of government-one parliamentary, one presidential and six possible hybrids. He deemed Types IV and VI problematic because a legislative vote of no confidence in the popularly elected executive would be seen as defiance of the popular will. He felt that these two would be acceptable if the no-confidence motion permitted the executive to dissolve the legislature. In 1980, Guyana created an executive presidency elected directly by the population and since 2000 removable by a parliamentary vote of no confidence which now satisfies Lijphart's Hybrid VI.

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