Coalitional Presidentialism in Africa, Latin America and Postcommunist Europe: Dynamics of Executive-Legislative Relations in New Democracies
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Area Studies
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Chaisty P
(2015)
Coalitional presidentialism and legislative control in post-Soviet Ukraine
in Post-Soviet Affairs
CHAISTY P
(2018)
Flying solo: Explaining single-party cabinets under minority presidentialism
in European Journal of Political Research
Chaisty P
(2017)
How Do Minority Presidents Manage Multiparty Coalitions? Identifying and Analyzing the Payoffs to Coalition Parties in Presidential Systems
in Political Research Quarterly
Chaisty P
(2014)
Presidential dynamics and legislative velocity in Russia, 1994-2007
in East European Politics
Chaisty P
(2012)
Rethinking the 'presidentialism debate': conceptualizing coalitional politics in cross-regional perspective
in Democratization
Fenwick T
(2017)
Five faces of presidential governance: insights from policy-making in democratic Brazil
in Policy Studies
Nic Cheeseman
(2015)
The Impact of Coalition Government in Africa
| Description | 1. Our cross-national statistical research shows that political fragmentation (a rise in the number of parties in parliament) is increasing across all types of political systems, whether presidential, semipresidential or parliamentary. The number of coalitional presidential democracies is expected to rise in the future, making the findings of the project critical for understanding of this new subtype of regime. 2. There are notable cross-regional differences in the specific tools used by presidents to manage their interparty coalitions. In Latin America, presidents rely more heavily on formal legislative powers; in Africa, on informal institutions such as the exchange of favours; and in the former Soviet Union, there is a mixture of these two strategies. 3. Elected legislators in the nine countries recognise coalitional presidentialism as a viable solution to governability pressures in executive-legislative relations, yet at the same time they are often critical of the costs of presidential empowerment. 4. Presidents face strong temporal pressures in coalition management. As their term in office elapses, they become notably more willing to surrender cabinet representation to allied parties in order to maintain the integrity of the coalition. This allows them to remain in office but at the expense of policy influence. |
| Exploitation Route | Project findings have already been disseminated to academic and policy beneficiaries in a number of different ways as envisaged in the Pathways to Impact statement: 1. A project website was created to host and disseminate key information including publications, policy briefs and research reports: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~latc0045/CPP/News_%26_Events.html 2. Major dissemination events were held in Brazil (5 events in different cities), France, Kenya, the UK, Spain, Ukraine and Russia, with mixed audiences of academics, donor representatives, and local stakeholders. 3. A clearly written and accessible project research report was produced, translated into Armenian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian, and is now being disseminated via email and the project website. 4. Policy briefs tailored to the needs a policy audience were prepared on new coalition governments in Brazil and Ukraine, which were circulated via email and the website. 5. Five journal articles have been published in Democratization, Post-Soviet Affairs, Russian Analytical Digest, Europe-Asia Studies and East European Politics. The Democratization article has been widely read and cited, after it won the GIGA Award for the best article in Comparative Area Studies 2014. Further impact strategies include: 1. The three Co-Investigators are currently preparing a book manuscript and several more journal articles in order to share the findings of the project with a broader academic audience. 2. The Co-Investigators have a standing invitation to present the final research findings to policy makers within the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK government. We hope that this may lead to a collaborative project on the impact of coalitional government on democracy and accountability in the three regions. |
| Sectors | Government, Democracy and Justice |
| URL | http://www.area-studies.ox.ac.uk/presidentialism |
| Description | Our policy dissemination and impact has occurred through five main streams. First, the project's Advisory Board, which includes both senior academic figures such as Professor Robert Elgie and senior policy makers such as Elizabeth Teague of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) of the UK government, was used to disseminate project findings through the networks of Board members. Second, a 6,000 word Research Report was written that summarises the main findings of the Coalitional Presidentialism Project, and translated into Armenian, French, Russian, Portuguese, and Ukrainian, and disseminated to policy makers through the researcher's contacts at the Department for International Development (DFID) and FCO of the UK Government, as well as to interested policy makers in the relevant countries. For example, the Ukrainian version of the report was published by the website of the Ukrainian President's National Institute for Strategic Studies. Third, a series of targeted policy briefs were written on each region (Africa, former USSR and Latin America) and disseminated through the same policy networks. In some cases, these findings were also disseminated through the press, for example through Nic Cheeseman's column in the Sunday Nation, the most popular newspaper in Eastern Africa; the Presidential Power blog, run by Advisory Board Member Robert Elgie (www.presidentialpower.com); Dr Nic Cheeseman's popular website aimed at the democracy promotion community, www.democracyinafrica.org; and, Paul Chaisty's discussion of the project's findings on Ukrainian radio. More recently, a piece in the highly regarded Washington Post series the Monkey Cage received considerable engagement. Fourth, the Co-Investigators held a series of events targeted at policy makers around the world. In total, 20 dissemination events were held in four countries across three continents, many of which had a significant policy component/audience. These events included: • a lecture by Tim Power to a new MA programme in Legislative Studies sponsored by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies in Brasília. • meetings between Nic Cheeseman the UK High Commissioner to Kenya, Christian Turner, and senior representatives from the FCO and DFID Kenya on legislative strengthening and corruption efforts in the context of coalition government. • a briefing that Paul Chaisty gave to the new UK Ambassador to Moscow, where a copy of the research findings was presented. • a talk by Nic Cheeseman to the Africa section of the Foreign Office at a one-day policy planning workshop/away day that Dr Cheeseman helped to organize. • a briefing that Nic Cheeseman gave to the new Head of the Africa Directorate, Neil Wigan, at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as part of his induction to the post, which focussed on the challenges that coalitional politics present to democratic consolidation. • lectures that Tim Power gives annually to two units of the Ministry of Defence of the UK government, the Royal College of Defence Studies and the Advanced Command and Staff Course at the Defence Academy of the UK (Shrivenham). • a talk that Tim Power gave to senior policy figures on coalitional presidentialism in Brazil at Chatham House. • an invited lecture that Tim Power delivered to a private sector audience at the German Federation of Industry in Dusseldorf, Germany. • a major workshop that was held at the Federal Senate of Brazil in Brasília and which was jointly opened by Senators Cyro Miranda, Flexa Ribeiro, and Lídice da Mata, by the Ambassador of the United Kingdom, HE Alex Ellis, and by the Director of the Brazilian Legislative Institute Helder Rebouças. This latter event was attended by over 150 people and broadcast on TV in the Senate and online. • an international conference that was held at Oxford University, in which senior academics and policy makers discussed the work of the researchers and leading figures across the three continents that the project addresses. Members of the Advisory Board participated in these discussions, including as Elizabeth Teague, who analyses Russian politics for the FCO. Fifth, a website was created and maintained to disseminate publications, policy briefs and information on project events, including videos and podcasts of some of the talks. The website, which is hosted by the School of Interdisciplinary Areas Studies of Oxford University, can be found here: http://www.area-studies.ox.ac.uk/presidentialism. A further micro-site dedicated to the project is hosted by the Department of Politics and International Relations of Oxford University, and can be viewed here: http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/knowledge-exchange-project/the-coalitional-presidentialism-project.html. Project findings were also disseminated via twitter and by posting podcasts to Oxford University's dedicated i-Tunes University profile. Eight video-casts can be accessed through this link: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/id1069819318. Many of the publications from the project and speaking engagements of the Investigators have raised the profile of coalitional politics and resulted in requests for more information. Through Paul Chaisty's ties with the Armenian Apella Institute, the findings of the research project fed into public debates surrounding the constitutional reform referendum in Armenia in late 2015. He also raised the profile of the issue in Russia through the influential Institute for Law and Public Policy, which acts as an interface between academic and Russian lawyers and policy makers. In some cases, policy engagement has led prominent policy making bodies to amend their approach in line with the project's findings. For example, research talks delivered individually by Tim Power, Nic Cheeseman and Paul Chaisty to the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) - the UK's leading democracy promotion organization funded by DFID and the FCO - led the organization to give greater space to thinking through the potential impact of presidential coalitions on its legislative strengthening programmes. At the same time, the expertise that the Investigators amassed on executive-legislative relations around the world during the research project led the WFD to approach Nic Cheeseman to be the Principal Investigator for a programme on the Political Economy of Democracy Promotion that has a heavy focus on legislative development. This programme now employs a full time post-doc, hosted at the University of Oxford but funded by the WFD with money secured from DFID, and is soon to publish its first policy paper on legislative strengthening. More information can be found at http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/research-projects/the-political-economy-of-democracy-promotion-project-in-collaboration-with-the-westminster-foundation-for-democracy.html. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2013 |
| Sector | Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | Political Economy of Democracy Promotion |
| Amount | £200,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Westminster Foundation for Democracy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 01/2019 |
| Title | Legislative Data |
| Description | This collection brings together data from the Coalitional Presidentialism Project, which ran at the University of Oxford from 2011-2015. The dataset contains information on the composition and legislative performance of multiparty coalitions assembled by directly elected minority presidents in nine countries (Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine). This includes data on composition of inter-party coalitions assembled by presidents and on their legislative performance, collected by project research consultants in the nine national capital cities, and augmented with external data. The data is available through the UK Data Service. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data has only been available for a few months, so it is not possible to track other publications that will draw on the research. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=852003&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Title | Survey Data |
| Description | This collection brings together data from the Coalitional Presidentialism Project, which ran at the University of Oxford from 2011-2015. The dataset contains data from a survey conducted among 350 members of parliament across the nine countries (Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine), as well as transcripts of semi-structured interviews with these same legislators. Survey research and semi-structured personal interviews were conducted between 2012 and 2015 with 350 members of national legislative bodies in Armenia (N=30), Benin (N=30), Brazil (N=50), Chile (N=30), Ecuador (N=30), Kenya (N=40), Malawi (N=40), Russia (N=50), and Ukraine (N=50). The data is available through the UK Data Service. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data was only made available a few months ago, so it is too soon to track publications citing or engaging with the data. |
| URL | https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=852003&type=Data%20catalogue |
| Description | Articles on www.democracyinafrica.org |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Articles on coalitional politics in Africa published on Dr Nic Cheeseman's website, www.democracyinafrica.org, which targets the democracy promotion policy community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://democracyinafrica.org/push-pull-party-alliances-kenya/ |
| Description | Blog posts and website promotion via Oxford University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog posts and a permanent mini-website on the website and blog site of the Department of Politics and International Relations of Oxford University, which is very focussed on the academic and policy communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/knowledge-exchange-project/the-coalitional-presidentialism-project.html |
| Description | Briefing of DFID and FCO teams in Kenya |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meetngs between Nic Cheeseman the UK High Commissioner to Kenya, Christian Turner, and senior representatives from the FCO and DFID Kenya on legislative strengthening and corruption efforts in the context of coalition government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Briefing of UK Ambassador to Moscow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Paul Chaisty gave a briefing to the new UK Ambassador to Moscow, where a copy of the research findings was presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Briefing of new UK Africa Director |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nic Cheeseman gave a breifing to the new Head of the Africa Directorate, Neil Wigan, at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as part of his induction to the post, which focussed on the challenges that coalitional politics present to democratic consolidation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective in Brazil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 19th September, 2013 the CPP held its first regional workshop at the Federal Senate of Brazil in Brasi´lia. The event was jointly opened by Senators Cyro Miranda, Flexa Ribeiro, and Li´dice da Mata, by the Ambassador of the United Kingdom, HE Alex Ellis, and by the Director of the Brazilian Legislative Institute Helder Rebouc¸as. The CPP team was joined by the researchers from Federal Senate of Brazil and the University of Brasilia. The event was attended by over 150 people and broadcast on TV in the Senate and online. The conference advertised the Coalitional Presidentialism Project. Afterwards, the members of the project were invited to participate in other conferences on presidentialism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://users.ox.ac.uk/~latc0045/CPP/Regional_Workshops.html |
| Description | Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective in Nairobi, Kenya |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On December 9 2013, The CPP team held it final regional workshop at the Safari Club, Nairobi, Kenya, where it discussed coalitional politics in Africa with a broad range of individuals from academia, civil society, and the policy work. Those present including Yash Ghai, the constitutional advisor and renowned constitutional expert, Denis Galava, the editor of the Saturday Nation, one of East Africa's most popular newspapers, and representatives of organizations such as the African Centre for Open Governance. The conference sparked discussion about the application of the coalitional presidentialism framework to African cases. The conference stimulated the debate about the tools used by African presidents to form and maintain coalitions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://users.ox.ac.uk/~latc0045/CPP/Regional_Workshops.html |
| Description | Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective in Oxford, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The project organized a large international conference at the University of Oxford on 2-3 May 2014. In addition to the ESRC, the event was also supported by the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies and the Department of Politics and International Relations. The conference gathered together an unprecedented number of scholars of presidentialism from the United Stated, Europe, Africa and Latin America, including Professor John Carey (keynote speaker), Professor Jose´ Antonio Cheibub and Nicolas van de Walle. The conference sparked discussions about coalitional presidentialism and the tools presidents use to form and maintain coalitions around the world. After the conference, the principal investigators of the project were asked to participate in other events on presidentialism as well as to share the data produce by the project. Plans for further involvement were made. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://users.ox.ac.uk/~spet0783/CPP_website/News_%26_Events.html |
| Description | Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective in Ukraine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On 2nd October, 2013 the CPP held its second regional workshop at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) in Ukraine. The Oxford team debated the early results of the project along with representatives of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, the Agency for Legislative Initiatives and the Academy of Public Administration under the Office of the President of Ukraine (Department for Parliamentarism) as well as the students and faculty of NaUKMA. The conference sparked discussion about the application of the proposed framework to the case of Ukraine and Russia. After the conference, further information about the findings and the project was requested. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://users.ox.ac.uk/~latc0045/CPP/Regional_Workshops.html |
| Description | Nic Cheeseman blog post on Presidential Power blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presidential Profile - Uhuru Kenyatta, Dynastic politics and the making of a Kenyan president, Presidential Power, 12 January 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://presidential-power.com/?p=5881 |
| Description | Nic Cheeseman post on Presidential Power Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Nic Cheeseman, Kenya - President Kenyatta forms new party, Presidential Power, 15 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://presidential-power.com/?p=5325 |
| Description | Paul Chaisty and Svitlana Chernykh presentation to ECPR Prague, 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paul Chaisty and Svitlana Chernykh 'How do minority presidents in Ukraine manage multi-party coalitions? Identifying and analysing the payoffs to party supporters' Paper prepared for the annual conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Prague, Czech Republic, 7-10 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Paul Chaisty and Timothy J. Power presentation to ECPR Prague, 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paul Chaisty and Timothy J. Power 'Flying Solo: Explaining Single-Party Cabinets Under Minority Presidentialism' Paper prepared for the annual conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Prague, Czech Republic, 7-10 September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Paul Chaisty presentation at the University of Birmingham, 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paul Chaisty 'Unpacking the presidential toolbox: Coalitional presidentialism from a cross-regional perspective', Birmingham University, UK, 2 March 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Paul Chaisty presentation to American Political Science Assocaition, Boston, USA, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Roundtable event launching the book of the project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Paul Chaisty presentation to International Poltiical Studies Assocaition, Brisbane, Australia, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Roundtable event launching the book of the project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Paul Chaisty presentation to Moscow State University, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A lecture to graduate students specialising in Comparative Politics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Paul Chaisty presentation to senior Chinese Communist Party officials, Oxford 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A lecture to senior Chinese Communist Party officials on issues in Comparative Politics. The delegation of 20 officials was from Tianjin. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Paul Chaisty presentation to the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paul Chaisty, 'How do Presidents Build Multi-Party Support in the Modern World?: Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective', Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, 1 April 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Paul Chaisty presentation to the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A lecture to graduate students specialising in Comparative Politics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Paul Chaisty presentation to the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Paul Chaisty, 'Are Presidents Becoming More Like Prime Ministers?: Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective', Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia, 31 March 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Paul Chaisty presentation to the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture as part of the University's outreach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Paul Chaisty presentation to the School of Area Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture was part of an initiative aimed at building ties with European Universities post-Brexit. It cemented ties between Oxford and Charles. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Posts on the Presidential Power website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A number of posts related to the project have appeared on the Presidential Power website run by Advisory Board Member Robert Elgie. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://presidential-power.com/?tag=coalitional-presidentialism |
| Description | Talks to the Westminster Foundation of Democracy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Research talks delivered individually by Tim Power, Nic Cheeseman and Paul Chaisty to the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) - the UK's leading democracy promotion organization funded by DFID and the FCO - led the organization to give greater space to thinking through the potential impact of presidential coalitions on its legislative strengthening programmes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Tim Power lectures German Federation of Industry in Dusseldorf, Germany. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Tim Power gave an invited lecture to a private sector audience at the German Federation of Industry in Dusseldorf, Germany. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Tim Power lectures MA in Legislative Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Tim Power gave a talk to a new MA programme in Legislative Studies sponsored by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies in Brasília. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Tim Power lectures MoD |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Lectures that Tim Power gives annually to two units of the Ministry of Defence of the UK government, the Royal College of Defence Studies and the Advanced Command and Staff Course at the Defence Academy of the UK (Shrivenham). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Tim Power lectures at Chatham House |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Tim Power gave a talk to senior policy figures on coalitional presidentialism in Brazil at Chatham House. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Timothy J. Power presentation at the U.S. Department of State, 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Timothy J. Power spoke on the role of coalitional presidentialism in the impeachment proceedings against president Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, United States Department of State, 10 June 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Timothy J. Power presentation to the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law, Heidelberg, 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Timothy Power spoke on "Rethinking Presidentialism: Fragmentation and Coalitional Governance" at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law, Heidelberg, Germany, 6 December 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Timothy Power inaugural lecture at the University Vila Velha, Brazil, 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Timothy J. Power spoke on coalitional presidentialism in Brazil when delivering the 2016 Inaugural Lecture of the Program in Political Sociology, University of Vila Velha, state of Espirito Santo, Brazil, 29 August 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | UK Foreign Office Policy Planning & Away Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Nic Cheeseman presented the research on coalitional presidentialism in Africa to a policy planning workshop of the Africa section of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office at Cambridge University, UK. Dr Cheeseman helped to organize the event, which is designed to allow the Foreign Office to consider broader issues and future trends. The majority of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office team attended; over 20 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Washing Post Article on Coalitional Presidenialism |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A summary of the project's findings were published in the highly regarded Washington Post series the Monkey Cage, and received considerable engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/ |