Cheibub, José Antonio; Limongi, Fernando --- "The structure of legislative-executive relations: Asia in comparative perspective" [2014] ELECD 139; in Dixon, Rosalind; Ginsburg, Tom (eds), "Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) 123

Book Title: Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia

Editor(s): Dixon, Rosalind; Ginsburg, Tom

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781002698

Section: Chapter 6

Section Title: The structure of legislative-executive relations: Asia in comparative perspective

Author(s): Cheibub, José Antonio; Limongi, Fernando

Number of pages: 40

Abstract/Description:

Legislative-executive relations refers to the institutions that govern and the processes that characterize the interactions between two of the three conventional branches of a democratic political system (the third being, of course, the judiciary). This entails a consideration of the legal (constitutional and statutory) provisions that regulate the formation of the government, the rules for electing the legislative assembly, the way the formation of each of these branches affects the performance of the other, the rules for producing legislation, and the behavior (strategic or otherwise) of the actors that make up the "executive" (the head of government and the ministers) and the "legislative" (individual legislators and political parties). This is a large area of research, which could reasonably encompass everything that would traditionally go under the heading of "comparative government." A thorough treatment of all these topics here is impossible for reasons of space, and so we offer a selective treatment of the issues based on our particular perspective of how studies of legislative-executive relations have evolved. We provide a general overview of the issues, before turning to the Asian context in the last part of the chapter. In order to simplify the analysis we divide the vast and heterogeneous literature that concerns us here into two parts, which we call the "earlier" and the "later" generations of studies of legislative-executive relations.