superpresidential

super- +‎ presidential

• IPA^(key): /ˌsuːpərprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl/

superpresidential (comparative more superpresidential, superlative most superpresidential)

1. (political science) Of or relating to a form of republican government in which the president holds unusually extensive powers over the executive and legislature, surpassing those in standard presidential or semi‑presidential systems.
   • 1996 October 17, Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, editors, Civil-Military Relations and Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 111:

     … after President Boris Yeltsin dissolved parliament in September 1993 and won a referencum on a new constitution that eliminated the previous sustem of checks and balances in favor of a new superpresidential order.

   • 2002 January 24, M. Crawford Young, Mark Beissinger, editors, Beyond State Crisis? Post-Colonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, page 232:

     The superpresidential regime is therefore not stable; it can drift in any direction—changing its rhetoric, its goals, its balance of forces, and its major ideas.

   • 2018 June 6, Brian D. Taylor, The Code of Putinism, Oxford University Press, page 4:

     The 1993 Russian Constitution is frequently described as “superpresidential” because of the considerable powers it gave to the head of state.