Title: PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT | HYATTRACTIONS
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PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
Content: Juan Linz argues that: The danger that zero-sum presidential elections pose is compounded by the rigidity of the president’s fixed term in office. Winners and losers are sharply defined for the entire period of the presidential mandate… losers must wait four or five years without any access to executive power and patronage. The zero-sum game in presidential regimes raises the stakes of presidential elections and inevitably exacerbates their attendant tension and polarization. Constitutions that only require plurality support are said [who?] to be especially undesirable, as significant power can be vested in a person who does not enjoy support from a majority of the population. Some [who?] political scientists say that presidentialism is not constitutionally stable. Some political scientists [who?] go further, and argue that presidential systems have difficulty sustaining democratic practices, noting that presidentialism has slipped into authoritarianism in many of the countries in which it has been implemented.