KAHRAMAN, Mehmet Mustafa Kemal University - Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences - Department of Public Management, Turkey

THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE PRESIDENT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE HEADS OF THE EXECUTIVE IN PARLIAMENTARY AND PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEMS IN TERMS OF THEIR POWERS

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In today’s world, it is seen that presidential system through parliamentary systems or semi-presidential systems having common characteristics with these systems are generally accepted in democracies. In parliamentary systems, there is a two-winged executive, and executive powers are used by the Prime Minister. The real and unique owner of the executive is the President and all executive power is used by him/her. Function of the parliamentary system changed with a rise of political parties; the Prime Minister, leader of the ruling party, has become dominant on two powers with help of the majority. It has recently been claimed that the Prime Minister who rules the executive and the legislative is more powerful than the President in the US presidential system. In this research, it has been tried to find to what extent this claim is true by comparing the Prime Minister and the President.

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Prime Minister , President , Parliamentary System , Presidential System , Executive

Mustafa Kemal University Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences

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