i prefer creative construction. a well organized state will still have problems. immigration is hard. still, some states address these problems more capably than others, and maintain greater legitimacy from their publics than others. 1/

France’s is not a well-arranged parliamentary system. it was designed to give de Gaulle, and now Macron, too much power as President. Germany, the Nordics, New Zealand are better examples. Far from perfect polities! But relatively more functional, and publics feel relatively more enfranchised. /fin