Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution
by kelseyfrog on Thursday October 27, 2022 @10:20AM
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To actually do comparative politics, you need to regress over regimes not just call out counter examples. This is a quantitative problem, not a logic problem.
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Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution
by tomp on Thursday October 27, 2022 @04:57PM
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No, because I don't care about averages. I care about minimum, and maybe maximum.
The worst for representative democracy is literally Hitler. The second worst (you could argue that Hitler was a unique set of circumstances) is the dysfunctional German, Italian, or French states.
The best case is probably Switzerland (party proportions barely change, I assume because the power of parliament is diminished because of elements of direct democracy that Swiss practice).
What's the worst case for first-past-the-post democracy?
Re:The United States’ Unamendable Constitution
by kelseyfrog on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:50PM
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Thanks for being transparent. When I say stable, I'm referring to regime-years which is a standard way of operationalizing stability in comparative politics. It makes sense that if you're interested in things other than regime-years then most of what I have to share isn't going to be interesting to you.