This book provides an empirical warrant to the greater democratic stability of the parliamentary forms of government over the presidential system. Likewise, it provides empirical evidence of the hypothesized nexus between centralization and cameralism on one hand and democratic stability as measured by the occurrence of coups d'etat on the other.
This book may be used for both undergraduate and graduate courses in political science and public administration. Maybe, one way or the other, this book will provoke some insights in the minds of constitutional engineers.
