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superpresidential en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌsuːpərprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl/

Etymology

super- + presidential

Meanings

1. Of or relating to a form of republican government in which the president holds unusually extensive powers over the executive and legislature, surpassing those in standard presidential or semi‑presidential systems.
   • … after President Boris Yeltsin dissolved parliament in September 1993 and won a referencum on a new constitution that eliminated the previous sustem of checks and balances in favor of a new superpresidential order. 1996 October 17, Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, editors, Civil-Military Relations and Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 111:
   • The superpresidential regime is therefore not stable; it can drift in any direction—changing its rhetoric, its goals, its balance of forces, and its major ideas. 2002 January 24, M. Crawford Young, Mark Beissinger, editors, Beyond State Crisis? Post-Colonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, page 232:
   • The 1993 Russian Constitution is frequently described as “superpresidential” because of the considerable powers it gave to the head of state. 2018 June 6, Brian D. Taylor, The Code of Putinism, Oxford University Press, page 4:

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