The Stages of Installation and Institutional, Procedural, Political and Behavioral Attributes of Semi-Presidentialism in Poland and Ukraine: Comparative Analysis

Abstract

The research is dedicated to conceptualization, systematization and comparing the attributes and stages of installation and development of semi-presidential system of government in Poland and Ukraine. It was argued that semi-presidentialism should be defined the least subjectively or minimally (or in an institutional and procedural way), but should be classified the most broadly or maximally (or in an institutional, procedural, political and behavioral way). Based on this, it was found that we need to classify semi-presidentialism in a versatile way, i.e. institutionally, procedurally, politically, behaviorally and synthetically. Accordingly, it was found that reflection on semi-presidentialism in singular can be only definitive, but such a logic is unacceptable in the classification of semi-presidentialism, because different “adjectives” and attributes of semi-presidentialism refer to different formal and factual types, phases and scenarios of the analyzed system of government. The researcher reasoned that as of 2017 Poland and Ukraine experienced very similar types of semi-presidentialism, which were determined with the unified majority systems within the constructions of balanced premier-presidentialism. At the same time, it was found that the powers of the various political actors within the conditions of semi-presidentialism are determined with formal, constitutional, institutional, procedural, political, behavioral, party, electoral and personal factors.