AUTHOR:
Vitaliy Lytvyn
ABSTRACT:
The article is dedicated to analyzing the phenomenon and components of parliamentary responsibility of governmental cabinets as an institutional, procedural, political and behavioral attribute of semi-presidentialism in European countries. It is emphasized that parliamentary responsibility of governmental cabinet is a systemic and immanent feature of semi-presidentialism and can be reflected mainly through the procedures of parliamentary votes of no confidence in running governmental cabinets and optionally through the procedures of parliamentary votes of confidence in running governmental cabinets. These procedures were characterized and clustered on the basis of a comparative analysis of European semi-presidential countries. Additionally, the study analyzes the electoral and non-electoral factors of parliamentary responsibility of governmental cabinets in the context of semi-presidentialism in Europe.
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