Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
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The Pros and Cons of Checks and Balances in the American Constitution
I think that there's a big question about exactly what form checks and balances should take. My own sense where speaking in American context here, my own sense is that the American Constitution introduced to extreme a version of checks and balances that leads to gridlock. And I set up in the bouquet contrast between a Washington-style presidential democracy and the checks and balances it introduces. In Australia you do have a big division between the courts and the executive and legislature, but you do not have a division between the legislature and the executive.
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