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Among how many of the worlds’ governments?
by apexalpha 1y ago
Among how many of the worlds’ governments?
- 5555624 1y agoWikipedia lists 11 in the U.S. since 1980, including this one. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_Un...) A couple were only for four hours.
- vkou 1y agoIn the rest of the civilized world, a 'government shutdown' - a no-confidence vote - would result in a snap election, where the voters immediately get to choose who to punish and who to reward with power.
- ASalazarMX 1y agoIMO, a government shutdown is a signal of a failed state. It's not a thing that should happen, and if it does, protections should be legislated immediately so it doesn't happen again. Political bickering shouldn't have reached this heights.
- vkou 1y ago> IMO, a government shutdown is a signal of a failed state. It is not a signal of a failed state. It is a signal of a failed government. The solution to that is to keep having elections until you get a government that will do the work. The signal of a failed state is the voters voting this madness in, and approving of it. A snap election in this case would likely result in more of the same. Check out the congressional approval ratings among republicans of their reps. What they are cheering on is absolutely wild.
- ethbr1 1y agoI would say there seems to be a hole in some legislature systems (Israel, Germany, India?) where the thresholds required for various functions seem unlikely to be attainable with certain vote total splits between multiple parties. And in those times, voters are unlikely to defect from parties just because. Ergo, there's a succession of very weak governments that rapidly collapse. Which doesn't seem great for governance either. Feels like a perfect system would have a better 'there is no mandate attainable, so no one gets power but a shared government is forced into office for minimum X years' numerical escape hatch.
- SilasX 1y agoA true government shutdown, yes. But here, all the nation-state-defining stuff (military, border control, police) stays up, and only parts of it shut down.
- card_zero 1y agoExcept in Belgium from 2007 to 2011. I think they had two separate periods of seven months without a government due to Dutch-speaking and French-speaking parties engaging in what they called negotiation. This happens immediately after elections, when they need to form a coalition.