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Tables 1.1 The spread of countries with semi-presidential constitutions 1.2 Constitutional systems in Francophone Africa (as of March 31, 2010) 1.3 Constitutional systems in countries of the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia (as of March 31, 2010) 1.4 Variation within semi-presidentialism 2.1 Clustering of semi-presidential countries 2.2 Parliamentarism and West European semi-presidential regimes 2.3 Operational subtypes under semi-presidentialism 2.4 Clustering and subtypes of semi-presidentialism 3.1 Duration and outcome of democratic episodes in semi-presidential regimes 3.2 The survival of semi-presidential democracies (Cox Proportional Hazards Model) 4.1 Free semi-presidential countries (2009) 4.2 Government types in free semi-presidential countries 4.3 Government formation in semi-presidential democracies: Results from the binary logistic regression 4.4 Regression of government durability of semi-presidential governments 5.1 The origins of West European semi-presidentialism 5.2 Presidential powers in West European semi-presidential countries 5.3 Party support in the executive in West European semi-presidential countries 6.1 Regime type and freedom house PR scores by geographic region 6.2 Regime type and electoral systems 6.3 Constitutional Regime Change (Original Post-Communist Regimes Only) 6.4 Countries with unstable constitutional regimes 7.1 Basic indicators for