Competitive elections are only the start; if a president can induce all events to share power and go into authorities quite than opposition, then elections may have removed actually no parties from office. This is very troublesome from an accountability perspective when presidents supply beneficiant power-sharing deals to events whose reputation is plummeting at the ballot box. The introduction of direct presidential elections in 2004 appeared likely to produce a variety of pronounced institutional results. One would be encouraging a model new model of presidential power-sharing. If presidents are chosen directly by the individuals, events should have much less leverage, ceteris paribus,Footnote four for extracting cabinet seats and different power-sharing concessions from the chief government. In principal-agent terms, direct elections make voters quite than parliamentarians the primary principal, even when presidential candidates should attempt to secure a party nomination, as they do in Indonesia. While it’s acceptable to step exterior…