"Indeed, the vast majority of the stable democracies in the world today are parliamentary regimes, where executive power is generated by legislative majorities and depends on such majorities for survival."
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"By contrast, the only presidential democracy with a long history of constitutional continuity is the United States.
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The burden of this essay is that the superior historical performance of parliamentary democracies is no accident"
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The burden of this essay is that the superior historical performance of parliamentary democracies is no accident"
- Juan Linz, The Perils of Presidentialism, 1990