The Contemporary “Models” of Government: Dilemmas and Challenges

Abstract

The author analyzes the contemporary models of government, including
the Macedonian one, through the relations between the legislative and
the executive, at normative level and in practice. According to her, the
problematic and relative methodological value of the dichotomy
“parliamentarism - presidentialism” in the classification of government
can also be observed in the Macedonian example of separation of
powers. The Macedonian “constitutional cocktail” is even more
complicated and more hybrid with regard to the practical functioning of
institutions, due to the absence of democratic tradition and participative
political culture, it’s a result of the partytocratic state in which it is
difficult to determine where parties end and the state begins, as well as
due to the fragile civil society.