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The Presidentialization of Political Parties Due to Presidentialized Systems of Government: Theoretical  nsights with Reference to the Fifth French Republic

Publication date: 15.11.2024

Teoria Polityki, 2024, Nr 10/Special Issue, pp. 207-226

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440845TP.24.011.20603

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Łukasz Jakubiak
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6219-8161 Orcid
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The Presidentialization of Political Parties Due to Presidentialized Systems of Government: Theoretical  nsights with Reference to the Fifth French Republic

Abstract

The presidentialization of political parties is part of a broader phenomenon called the presidentialization of politics. The latter is relatively new and remains associated, among other things, with the centralization of decision-making processes, as well as manifests itself in the growing role of individual political leaders. Presidentialization leads to an increasingly stronger actual position of the executive power within modern systems of government (presidentialism, semi-presidentialism and parliamentarism), which goes beyond the letter of the constitution. This also affects the functioning of political parties. Hence, the aim of the article is to identify the key characteristics of presidentialized political parties that operate within presidentialized systems of government. The reference point for verifying these theoretical findings will be the parties operating within the semi-presidential system of the Fifth French Republic.

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Information: Teoria Polityki, 2024, Nr 10/Special Issue, pp. 207-226

Article type: Original article

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6219-8161

Łukasz Jakubiak
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6219-8161 Orcid
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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

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Łukasz Jakubiak – Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Political and Party Systems, Institute of Political Science and International Relations, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. His research interests focus on constitutionalism, political institutions and party
systems in France and former French colonies. E-mail: lukasz.jakubiak@uj.edu.pl.

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