Presidents, Prime Ministers and Majorities

The main focus of this edited book is on the power dynamics triangle between presidents, prime ministers and parliamentary majorities and the way it has evolved throughout the French Fifth Republic, the longest lasting semi-presidential regime. What are the main regularities in the way the three institutions function and interact? What is the footprint of the presidents', prime ministers' and leading parliamentarians' personalities on the dynamics of the institutional system and on the political evolution of the country during each presidential tenure? To what extent their ideological and partisan affiliations did affect the collaboration between these key political leaders and what were the wider consequences of the dynamics of the inter-institutional relations and the country's overall stability and progress? And what are the main lessons learnt or to be learnt from the Fifth French Republic's semi-presidential experience by other countries which shaped their institutional systems based on the French model?