Il disegno istituzionale in venti microstati. Ruoli di autorità, risorse procedurali e arene del confronto

The institutional design of democratic regimes has attracted much attention from a legal and political perspective, because it affects the actual distribution of power among political actors and the effectiveness of their decisions. Based on a classification of the democratic institutional design which focuses particularly on the triangular interactions among Presidents (or Heads of State), Governments, and Parliaments (Ieraci 2003, 2021b), this research note similarly tackles the institutional design of twenty microstates. In the adopted perspective, the institutional design of democracy consists of the institutional roles of authority, procedural resources attached to them and arenas of confrontation among the roles. A measurement of the powers of the authority roles in these microstates is provided, together with an evaluation of the institutional equilibria.