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As I was blathering on about in the other diary, the weakness of the purely parliamentary system is that the leader is not elected directly by the people, so the only way to get rid of him or her is by getting rid of the whole party. E.g. Tony Blair.

Although it is also interesting to note that there are "good" and "bad governments under all of these systems. That's why I have turned away from support of the alternative voting systems to FPTP: The practical result depends on factors other than the voting system.

by asdf on Thu May 11th, 2006 at 07:43:13 PM EST
If we were asking "Which system of political economy is better" I would think it a better question. Asking the one without the other, I think, just sends the arguments in silly circles.

With the "political economy" question, we could try some charts which included the utterance of credit/issuance of money -- charts conveying the concept of multiply-connected manifolds, in the style of Riemann.

Darn it, when will we stop with the "Mercedes Class A" political systems?

by Gary McGowan on Sat May 13th, 2006 at 01:20:48 AM EST
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