Dualism (politics)

In some states, functional dualism is manifested through the division of power between the two main branches of government (legislative and executive).

In other, mainly complex states, structural dualism is expressed as a division of power between two constitutive units.

The term monism is used to refer to a stance that important decisions should be prepared by the members of the governing coalition in order to promote political stability.

In history, one of the most notable examples of trialism was manifested as a political concept that the advocated transformation of the dual Austro-Hungarian Monarchy into a triune state, by creating a third constituent entity.

[2] The proposition was that this was to be achieved by the equalisation of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia to the two other monarchies in the empire, a conjecture that was supported by the assassinated Franz Ferdinand.