Presidents, Prime Ministers, & Governing

Case Studies: How systems work in practice

Australia (Parliament, Alternative Vote)

• How Parliament Works (Australia) Warning: Australians and their creative use of language

• How Laws are Made (Australia) 

• Difference between the House of Reps and Senate

South Africa (Parliamentary, List Proportional Representation, but coalition not needed until last year)

• What is the legislature?

• What are Coalitions?

 France (Semi-presidential)

• What are the presidential powers in the 5th Republic?

• Our answers to your French politics questions (reading)

• Why France Can't Form a New Government (optional)

• France’s Government Collapses: What Next?

Germany (Parliamentary, mixed member proportional representation, coalition)

• How the German Government Works

• How Laws are made in Germany

• How to Build a Governing Coalition in Germany

The UK (parliamentary, first past the post, majoritarian)

1. How Bills are Passed in the UK

2. How Governments are formed (UK)

Brazil (presidential)

• Written Briefing Brazil's Parliament and other  political institutions 

• Brazil’s Congress is Becoming More Powerful, But That’s Not Necessarily Bad for Democracy

Mexico

• Mexico's Parliament and other  political institutions 

• Mexico's Constitutional Reforms Series | Electoral Reform