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Constitutional Design

Entries tagged constitutional design.

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Presidentialism versus Parliamentarism

The comparative-institutions argument over whether the executive should stand on its own popular mandate and fixed term (presidentialism) or emerge from and answer to the legislature (parliamentarism).

9 min

Mental model

Veto Players

Policy change requires the agreement of every actor whose consent is needed to pass it; the more of them there are, the more ideologically distant, and the less internally unified, the harder change becomes.

9 min