We now model in game-theoretic terms the process of cabinet appointment in parliamentary democracies with a presidentialheadofstate.
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The president, who is elected directly for a maximum of two 6-year terms, is theheadofstate.
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Secondly, there is the date of appointment of a new government by theheadofstate.
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If no coalition forms after all parties have made their demands, theheadofstatechooses another formateur and the sequential demand game repeats.
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Power is therefore more than the gross power which the state, embodied in theheadofstate, exerts over its subjects.
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As under the monarchy, official ceremonies once again set out to foster a sense of personal loyalty to theheadofstate.
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At the top, there was the dualism between the ceremonialheadofstate, the emperor, and the military power-holder, the shogun.
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Popular election enables theheadofstateto emerge outside party politics, and proportional representation virtually forces him or her to build electoral coalitions across or above political parties.
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Moreover, the cloth appears in the context of the merchants paying taxes to a representative of theheadofstate, whose political power and economic primacy are thereby simultaneously reaffirmed.
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Theheadofstatechanges, but the citizens remain.
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Unlike almost every other country, we have no vote over theheadofstate.
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Theheadofstateis non-political and does not interfere in party politics.
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It is also the principal residence of ourheadofstateand the site of our legislature.
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Theheadofstatemust be a man.
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Even in the case of those with a dual franchise, members of the legislature had sworn allegiance to the sameheadofstate.
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