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The stability of a semi-presidential system is often put to the test when the president’s party does not hold a majority in parliament. Under these circumstances, the president-parliamentary version of semi-presidentialism where the government is accountable to both the president and the legislature is generally considered to be less stable than the premier-presidential version where the government is responsible only to the legislature. However, there may be other factors that militate against this generalization, which is the case in Taiwan.
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© 2011 Yu-Shan Wu and Jung-Hsiang Tsai
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Yu-Shan, W., Tsai, JH. (2011). Taiwan. In: Elgie, R., Moestrup, S., Yu-Shan, W. (eds) Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306424_10
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