| The current ruling government (comprised of a shotgun marriage between two opposing parties) disintegrated, right? My understanding of Israeli politics is that it's two major parties (roughly, conservative and liberal) + a few smaller bloc parties that generally line up with the same major party. And that the math of this vs the majority needed tends to result in a larger number of elections. I believe something similar tends to happen in Italy? And maybe Spain? The flaw, in the sense that overly-frequent elections are unproductive to the business of governing, as I see it is matching a static legal mandate (a government must be able to compose a strict majority) with a variable system (number and size of parties), that leads to some edge cases that make the former difficult / unsustainable. I'm American though, so I'm looking at this from our (probably to the rest of the world) crazy winner-take-all tilt. It seems like parliamentary democracies would be improved by either (a) implementing policies and laws that ensure a larger number of smaller blocs, with which alliances can be made (preference voting?) or (b) having "deescalator" clauses if election churn happens, to lower the threshold required to form a sitting government (which then presumably ramps back up over time). |