Amerikan Başkanlık Sistemi İstisna Mı?

Year 2024, Volume: 24 Issue: 3, 923 - 938, 30.09.2024

Zeynel Abidin Kılınç , Abdullah Sait Özcan

https://doi.org/10.18037/ausbd.1485407

Abstract

Küresel ölçekteki demokrasi endekslerinin en kapsamlısını ve en ayrıntılısını sunan Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Enstitüsünün 2024 demokrasi raporu, başkanlık sistemiyle yönetilen ABD, Kosta Rika, Uruguay, Güney Kore ve Şili’yi liberal demokrasiler sınıfında değerlendirmiştir. Başkanlık sistemiyle yönetilen ABD dışında dört ülkede demokratik istikrarın sağlanabilmiş olması, ABD başkanlık sisteminin bir istisna olduğu tezine meydan okumaktadır. Bu çalışmada liberal demokrasiler sınıfında değerlendirilen Güney Kore, Kosta Rika, Şili ve Uruguay parti yapıları, parti ideolojileri, parti disiplini ve meclis yapıları gibi özellikleri açısından incelenerek ABD başkanlık sistemiyle kıyaslanacaktır.

Keywords

Başkanlık Sistemi, ABD, Güney Kore, Kosta Rika, Şili, Uruguay

Is the US Presidential System an Exception?

Abstract

According to the 2024 democracy report of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute, which offers the most extensive and most detailed of the global democracy indices, the presidential USA, Costa Rica, Uruguay, South Korea, and Chile are classified as liberal democracies.The fact that democratic stability has been achieved in four countries other than the US challenges the thesis that the US presidential system is an exception. In this study, South Korea, Costa Rica, Chile, and Uruguay, classified as liberal democracies, will be analyzed regarding their party structures, party ideologies, party discipline, and parliamentary structures and compared with the US presidential system.

Keywords

USA, South Korea, Costa Rica, Chile, and Uruguay

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