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As an American I have no idea about the veracity of the GP claims or your claims that they are false. Can others step in and make HN great again by having a coo

As an American I have no idea about the veracity of the GP claims or your claims that they are false. Can others step in and make HN great again by having a cool, reasoned debate about the history of thr Turks within the confines of their democratic endeavors? I would like to know more. I've never understood the parliamentarian system. I'm use to a presidential system with checks and balances.

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_delirium 10y ago
The clearest article I've found on current factions (not as much on the history of the Turkish state), from an admittedly left-wing perspective, is this one: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/erdogan-constitutional-amendments-coup-akp/ https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/erdogan-constitutional-am...
- makmanalp 10y ago
  Might I also suggest: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/magazine/inside-turkeys-purge.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/magazine/inside-turkeys-p...
cryptonector 10y ago
OT, but parliamentarian systems with first-past-the-post election of MPs seem to work very well. That's basically the entire anglo-saxon world minus the U.S. Advantages of the parliamentarian system over presidential include: - short campaigns where the parties run, rather than personalities - short campaigns because the PM can call snap elections any time - parliament is usually not adversarial towards the government - elections are less frequent Disadvantages: - parliament is usually not adversarial towards the govt - elections are less frequent What I'd like to see is a way for the House of the U.S. Congress, and the POTUS, to be able to do something similar to calling snap elections: accelerate the election schedule by shortening the terms of currently-sitting congress-critters and the POTUS. (Presidential term limits would have to be adjusted to an amount of time rather than number of terms.) I think this would give us the best of both worlds. It would give Congress a huge check on the POTUS and vice-versa: whenever POTUS is very unpopular Congress could call elections, and whenever POTUS is very popular POTUS could call elections. And campaign seasons would be much shorter: presidential campaigns would not be two years long, but weeks or months. But a new primary system would be needed, that's for sure.

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_delirium 10y ago

The clearest article I've found on current factions (not as much on the history of the Turkish state), from an admittedly left-wing perspective, is this one: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/erdogan-constitutional-amendments-coup-akp/ https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/erdogan-constitutional-am...

makmanalp 10y ago
Might I also suggest: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/magazine/inside-turkeys-purge.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/magazine/inside-turkeys-p...

cryptonector 10y ago

OT, but parliamentarian systems with first-past-the-post election of MPs seem to work very well. That's basically the entire anglo-saxon world minus the U.S. Advantages of the parliamentarian system over presidential include: - short campaigns where the parties run, rather than personalities - short campaigns because the PM can call snap elections any time - parliament is usually not adversarial towards the government - elections are less frequent Disadvantages: - parliament is usually not adversarial towards the govt - elections are less frequent What I'd like to see is a way for the House of the U.S. Congress, and the POTUS, to be able to do something similar to calling snap elections: accelerate the election schedule by shortening the terms of currently-sitting congress-critters and the POTUS. (Presidential term limits would have to be adjusted to an amount of time rather than number of terms.) I think this would give us the best of both worlds. It would give Congress a huge check on the POTUS and vice-versa: whenever POTUS is very unpopular Congress could call elections, and whenever POTUS is very popular POTUS could call elections. And campaign seasons would be much shorter: presidential campaigns would not be two years long, but weeks or months. But a new primary system would be needed, that's for sure.