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T. Power and R. Elgie’s Workshop: “Institutional Power and Interbranch Coordination: Managing Executive-Legislative Relations in Presidential and Semi-Presidential Democracies”

The SG Presidential Politics is supporting the workshop entitled “Institutional Power and Interbranch Coordination: Managing Executive-Legislative  Relations in Presidential and Semi-Presidential Democracies” and organised by Timothy Power and Robert Elgie at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Nicosia, Cyprus, from 10-15 April 2018. The workshop description is here: https://ecpr.eu/Events/PanelDetails.aspx?PanelID=6806&EventID=112 The Call for Proposals is open and the deadline is December T. Power and R. Elgie’s Workshop: “Institutional Power and Interbranch Coordination: Managing Executive-Legislative Relations in Presidential and Semi-Presidential Democracies”

Winner ‘Robert Elgie’ Best paper Prize 2017

The Committee of the Standing Group “Presidential Politics” is very pleased to announce that ‘Robert Elgie’ Best Paper Prize 2017 edition has been awarded to Sebastien Lazardeaux of the St John Fisher College for his paper “French Cohabitation and the Nature of Policy Output”. The paper examines whether legislative activity in foreign and defense policy vary between periods of Winner ‘Robert Elgie’ Best paper Prize 2017