interregnum

The danger is that much of what the EU rightly pushed for during the good times could hasten its unraveling now, during the current interregnum. For example, given so much uncertainty about the future state of Europe and the world, debating enlargement or the TTIP seems pointless -- or worse, because even opening such discussions is certain to play into the hands of Euroskeptics.

The interregnum will eventually end and a new order will be born.

Herbert Hoover attributed special problems to party-change interregnums: "The four months' interregnum between election and inauguration (since shortened to two months) had always been a particularly difficult period, especially when there was a change of political parties, with all the overcharged campaign emotions."(1)

Thus, party-change presidential interregnums, are worthy of study as distinct political phenomena.

The presidential interregnum refers to the activities of the outgoing administration during the period between the election and the inauguration of a new president.

Before beginning evaluation of presidential interregnum activity, it is important to obtain a general sense of the state of mind of presidents during the interregnum.

However, interregnum presidents could conceivably relinquish power.

Other interregnum presidents contemplated their legal authority as president.

The 1933 ratification of the 20th Amendment shortened the interregnum from four months to two and one half months.