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I'm from Canada. We have an elected House of Commons, with the leader of that party serving as Prime Minister. The Prime Minister appoints people to sit in the Senate as the opportunities arise (leading to a party in power long enough being able to bull through any piece of shi--er crap legislation they want), and a Governor General who represents the English monarch in Canada.

Does this work? Not really. A Majority Government is a liscence to do what you want for five years, adn a second majority lets you get away with even more of that . We are on our second minority government, which means that to pass a bill, a second party has to agree to support the bill, adn if all three want to do so, they can depose the ruling party and force another election. In theory, this could work. For decades, the opinions of this country have been divided in its political philosophies, and after 24 years of consecutive majority governments, the degree of corruption has become intolerable. In a minority system, such corruption would be harder to get away with, and might be greatly reduced...

 

Amen to that. Just look at what's happened in Australia since the last election - new IR laws that shaft workers, voluntary student union legislation that undercuts universities... I don't think I want to wait another two years for things to change.

BTW, just be advised that this is not a serious story...

http://www.chaser.com.au/content/view/3061/44/

 

Pretty much the same as what Morgoroth already said (especially about the swedish party -they should be kicked out from the parlament), although I think that the decentralization is good. Just think about Russia: all centralized and 100% bureocratic.

So finnish government does slightly above average job in overall, but it's too stiff and bureocratic. They want to censor too much and they impose too many regulations. Not to forget that the taxes are high but still the services lack in areas like dental-care. Entrepreneurship also seems like a pain due of these regulations, so thumbs down of that.

 

Parliamentary democracy here (Bulgaria), although not doing a very good job of the latter...

Basically, if this country has had a decent elected government in the last, hmm,16 years, I must have missed it. Right now there is an interesting coalition of Liberals (centrist), Socialists and an ethnic party representing the Turkish minority (opportunists, basically), and it's a bit like the fable about the eagle, crab and carp - everyone is pulling things in their direction and wondering why things don't work. Our biggest problems are corruption above what is average even for the region, a very anti-business system of obscure paperwork that one needs (add in the aforementioned corruption as well) and a populace that has to meet almost EU-level prices with an average wage of $230, with perhaps half of the people not even getting that. The civil servants... well,every party that gets the government often tries to implant its people and get rid of some of the other groups', so it's a bit of a chaos. Responsiveness isn't exactly their best trait, but by and large they could be worse. Just hope it's nothing urgent.