Conclusion: Unity and Diversity in Presidential Republics

Abstract

However strange this may seem, the first purpose of this conclusion is to return to the reason why this book was written, and above all to survey general developments which had typically been looked at separately. They needed to be brought together and thus came to be a vast new phenomenon among the governments of the world. Only then does it begin to be possible to reflect on what is still missing in the way the ‘universe’ of presidential republics has been examined from its early manifestations in the late eighteenth century to its major position at the beginning of the twenty-first. The circumstances in which the presidential republics were setup in so many parts of the world, after the American Republic had been ‘invented’, command that one should go back to attempt to understand why it is that the very notion of the presidential republic is still not fully recognised at the beginning of the twenty-first century.