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Review:
Presidential and Parliamentary vary by levels of independence.
Pres:
- Responsible to the "people" not legislative branch
- Power is diffuse and slower than direct work with legislative
- Fixed tenure
Parliament:
- More oversight from the legislature
- PM Responsible to Legislative Branch
- Concentrated power (theoretically more timely and efficient)
- (Mostly) unfixed tenure
Takeaway
- Parliamentary systems *tend* to be more stable, efficient, accountable
- Presidential System tends to separate powers better because of Checks
and Balances, as long as legislative branch retains this spirit.
- In the US, this hasn't exactly happened
- But this has only mostly changed because the Senate used to be elected
entirely independently of popular vote
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