287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History

4628.641 - 4652.072 Jean-Paul Faguet

who studied democratic stability and instability across the world, but in particular across the well-established, highly institutionalized democracies. And what he finds is that the American-style system of presidentialism and separation of powers only really works in the United States of America. Many, many, many countries have copied this system. All of Latin America copied it.