Presidents, Unified Government and Legislative Control

Jung-Hsiang Tsai is Professor of Political Science at the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. He earned his PhD in Political Science from Boston University, USA. His research interests include comparative semi-presidential studies, comparative presidential studies, Sino-US relationships, and qualitative political methods. His works have been published in Crime, Law, and Social Change, French Politics, and Democratization.

• 1. Introduction: Presidents, Unified Government and Legislative Control.- 2. A Gently Slopped Leadership: Parliamentary Support for Presidents in France.- 3. Power Scope and Party Disunity of Semi-Presidentialism in Taiwan: The Perspective of Political Participation of Elites and the Masses.- 4. President and Congress in the Period of Unified Government in America.- 5. Political Institutions, Democratization, and Incumbent Party Cohesion under Unified Governments in Mexico.- 6. Consensual Decision-Making and No Rebels: Presidentialism in Indonesia.- 7. Presidents, Unified Government and Legislative Control: What Have We Learned?.