@curtosis @mattyglesias France and Britain are both outliers in different ways among parliamentary systems. I mean, sure, they have “parliaments”. But voting in Great Britain is first-past-the-post, not anything that would approximate proportional representation. And France’s system is unusually presidential, as we just saw when Macron supervened any negotiation within parliament to form a new government. 1/

@curtosis @mattyglesias (That said, I don’t think parliamentary vs presidential is the core axis of concern. I think US-style presidentialism could work, if Presidential elections were by a system that elevates the most broadly acceptable candidate rather than any narrow factional squeakers, and if elections for House were made consistent with its Constitutional role as first-mover in US governance, rather than ceding that to the Executive.) /fin