@curtosis @mattyglesias I’ve read Linz and some of literature that followed. Overall my view is that there’s a good point there (what do you do when two electoral mandates conflict?) and a kind of very course grained empirical regularity, but “presidentialism” is too broad and vague a term to be evaluated as an empirical treatment, and it’s better to think through mechanisms and pathologies than simple prescribe “parliamentarism”. (cf France + Britain!) 1/

@curtosis @mattyglesias I don’t know that I know Lipset, though it’s been a few years since my reading spree on this stuff.

I agree that MMP would be a fantastic system for the US House, nicely reconciling the personalistic representation US-ians expect for constituent services and glad-handling with the proportional representation the logical place of the House in our Constitutional system desperately demands. /fin