CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND THE GOVERNMENT: EXPERIENCE OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND THE UZBEK MODEL
Keywords:
President–Government Balance, form of government, executive power, the institution of the Prime Minister, distribution of powers, formation of the government, resignation of the government, vote of no confidenceAbstract
This article provides a systematic and comparative legal analysis of the constitutional texts of 129 countries from the perspective of the distribution of powers between the President and the Government. The geographical scope of the study covers the continents of Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa, and Oceania, and only states with a republican form of government with a written (codified) constitution were included in the selection. As a methodological basis, methods of direct descriptive analysis of constitutional texts, percentage distribution and determination of correlations between the established criteria were used. Global experience is compared with the norms of the new edition of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and the specifics of the national model of public administration are revealed. At the end of the study, the constitutional and legal criteria allowing for the systematic classification of the form of government were clarified, and relevant conclusions were formulated.
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