Table of Contents

1. The Presidentialization of Politics in Democratic Societies: A Framework for Analysis, Thomas Poguntke and Paul Webb
2. The British Prime Minister: Much More Than 'First Among Equals', Richard Heffernan and Paul Webb
3. A Presidentializing Party State? The Federal Republic of Germany, Thomas Poguntke
4. Presidentialization, Italian Style, Mauro Calise
5. The Presidentialization of Spanish Democracy: Sources of Prime Ministerial Power in Post-Franco Spain, Ingrid van Biezen and Jonathan Hopkin
6. The Low Countries: From Prime Minister to President-Minister, Stefaan Fiers and Andre Krouwel
7. Denmark: Presidentialization in a Consensual Democracy, Karina Pedersen and Tim Knudsen
8. 'President Persson': How did Sweden get Him?, Nicholas Aylott
9. Canada: Executive Dominance and Presidentialization, Herman Bakvis and Steven B. Wolinetz
10. Dyarchic Presidentialization in a Presidentialized Polity: The Fifth French Republic, Ben Clift
11. Finland: Let the Force Be with the Leader - But Who is the Leader?, Heikki Paloheimo
12. The Presidentialization of Portuguese Democracy?, Marina Costa Lobo
13. The Failure of Presidential Parliamentarism: Constitutional versus Structural Presidentialization in Israel's Parliamentary Democracy, Reuven Y. Hazan
14. The Semi-Sovereign American Prince: The Dilemma of an Independent President in a Presidential Government, Sergio Fabbrini
15. The Presidentialization of Contemporary Democratic Politics: Evidence, Causes, and Consequences, Paul Webb and Thomas Poguntke