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LEG.FR.'24. Après les législatives, tout laisse présager une forme inédite de cohabitation entre un président, bâtisseur infortuné de coalitions précaires, et des majorités parlementaires à géométries variables, le plus souvent hostiles au Chef de l'Etat. Nos analyses sur les cohabitations montrent les différentes hypostases de ces situations politiques, allant de la guerre interinstitutionnelle aux arrangements de nature plutôt interpersonnelle entre les présidents, les premiers minsitres et les diverses majorités.

Extrait de de l'introduction de l'article coécrit avec Sergiu Gherghina, S. en 2013: "The Failure of Cohabitation: Explaining the 2007 and 2012 Institutional Crises in Romania" dans "East European Politics and Societies", 27(4), 668-684. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325413485621 :
[...] "The semi-presidential system initially proposed by Duverger was essentially meant as a third way to the presidential and parliamentary systems. It was thought to remedy their inadequacies by emphasizing a somewhat different principle. This
principle involves the equilibrium between three institutions: the president, the Cabinet (run by the prime minister), and Parliament. Such a particular setting presupposes the existence of a dual executive in which a popularly elected head of state has considerable executive authority to be shared with the prime minister. Accordingly, semi-presidential systems are prone to conflicts between these two figures representing the executive. With different sources of legitimacy - popular support for the president and the legislators’ confidence in the prime minister -
both actors can claim more power and destabilize the equilibrium. Empirical evidence points to a few institutional and behavioral sources of conflict: leader personalities, party system configuration, parliamentary composition, ideological differences, or constitutional ambiguities." [...]