Legislative powers, veto players, and the emergence of delegative democracy: A comparison of presidentialism in the Philippines and South Korea

@article{Croissant2003LegislativePV,  title={Legislative powers, veto players, and the emergence of delegative democracy: A comparison of presidentialism in the Philippines and South Korea},  author={Aurel Croissant},  journal={Democratization},  year={2003},  volume={10},  pages={68 - 98},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144739609}}
This article integrates institutional and rational choice approaches to policy making to explain the emergence of delegative democracy in presidential systems. Delegative democracy, in essence, is a polyarchy which violates the rules and norms that secure the checks on the effective political power of democratically elected presidents at the horizontal level of the relations of the executive, legislature and judiciary. The article argues that delegative democracy is the result of the… 

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