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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Heads of State and Government

Naiade El-Khoury

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 14 November 2024

Subject(s):
Heads of state and government — Immunities — Impeachment — No-confidence vote — Prime Minister — Parliamentary systems — Monarchy — Presidential systems — Semi-presidential systems

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 The status and the function of a head of state and head of government are two among a number of ways to identify the distinguishing factors of the different forms of government. This entry will describe and assess the status and the function of heads of states and heads of governments in monarchical, presidential, semi-presidential, and parliamentarian systems. Each of these systems may be further sub-divided. 2 The status and the function of a head of state is connected to the status and function of the head of government. The head of government may exercise...
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