Table of Contents

Chapter One: Introduction: Presidential republics with moderating powers

Chapter Two: The emergence of presidential republics in Portugal and Timor-Leste

Chapter Three: Electing presidents with moderating power

Chapter Four: What do presidents do with moderating power?

Chapter Five: Moderating power and partisan presidents: two empirical cases

Chapter Six: The moderating power of presidents: Rex regnat sed non gubernat

About the Author

Rui Graça Feijó is Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, and Associate Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal. Previously he was a UN advisor to the presidency of Timor-Leste (2005-2006). He is the author of Dynamics of Democracy in Timor-Leste: The Birth of a Democratic Nation (2016) and Democracia: Linhagens e Configurações de um Conceito Impuro (2017).