Right now there’s an incentive to juuust hit a majority in order to maximize a party’s own appointments, so political systems with high fragmentation have government stability problems. Would there be a way to work around this? Could a parliament maybe do some of the work of a government directly, for example?
You know, I don’t believe it is an either-or situation, at least completely. Autocracies are often inefficient, and it seems like it should be possible for parties to share power a single way until the next scheduled election.