andrewducker | Interesting Links for 28-05-2022

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Fair point. I suspect that they would say that they're talking about FPTP, and that things are quite different under a system that doesn't push people towards the big parties. And that a system where you elect the president *first* is one that will operate quite differently to one where you elect representatives who then elect a leader.

Certainly the dynamics of the party system are entirely different in the US, where we elect a President and where that officer has no institutional control over the legislators of the same party. The UK does have rebels in Parliament, but they tend to be on particular issues only and jump back into the fold at the crunch: I suspect that by UK standards the actions of the likes of Joe Manchin must seem very strange.

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