> Only the presidential elections need to be single-winner.
An interesting thought experiment is having 3 equally powered heads of state (or indeed any small odd numbered group).
Most people's instant reaction is that it wouldn't work because we don't have it now.
After some reflection most people think it wouldn't work for other reasons that they can't adequately explain.
I think if you're going to contemplate nation-state wide administration reform it's worthwhile contemplating all kinds of changes.
(I'm in AU, where we have some semblance of 2pp, though in our most recent federal election some 25% of people did not vote for one of the two major parties/coalitions. Our system is clearly broken, but not as badly as the USA's. Small comfort.)
Parent had said that only the presidential elections need to be single-winner.
In Australia the head of government is the Prime Minister - curiously the specifics of that role are absent from our constitution, as it was evidently assumed to be a given. Head of State remains the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth, but that's a slight aside.
Prime Minister is not elected by the gen pop, despite many citizens of AU believing it to be the case. The 150 elected representatives in the parliament actually choose amongst them who the Prime Minister shall be -- a potentially very civilised approach to leadership elections.
Anyway, I'm not sure that I can defend myself against your claims about my personal observations.
Perhaps you could give it a go, and see if you get the same trends of responses that I described.
An interesting thought experiment is having 3 equally powered heads of state (or indeed any small odd numbered group).
Most people's instant reaction is that it wouldn't work because we don't have it now.
After some reflection most people think it wouldn't work for other reasons that they can't adequately explain.
I think if you're going to contemplate nation-state wide administration reform it's worthwhile contemplating all kinds of changes.
(I'm in AU, where we have some semblance of 2pp, though in our most recent federal election some 25% of people did not vote for one of the two major parties/coalitions. Our system is clearly broken, but not as badly as the USA's. Small comfort.)