№ 2 - 2007
Zaznayev O.I.
Index Analysis of Semi-Presidential States of Europe and of Post-Soviet Expanse

Methods of index analysis of presidential power, which are used in comparative political-science studies in the West, are critically considered in the article; and the author’s own methods of measuring presidential and parliamentary components of semi-presidentialism are proposed, based on calculation of the index of form of government (IFG). On calculating the IFG for the semi-presidential states of Europe and for countries that appeared after the disintegration of the USSR, the author specifies three clusters of semi-presidential systems (presidentialized systems, balanced systems and parliamentarized systems) and analyzes in detail their particular features.