Institutionalizing the public interest: the defense of deadlock and beyond.

There are alternative political structures to the US Founders or the Federalists' concept of separation of powers and checks and balances that would equally promote the public interest. These structures include the Estates-General Model which assumes that unvetoed policies of the different branches of government represent a least common denominator of what can be agreed upon by the public. The Responsible Party Government Model provides an extra-constitutional device of separation of powers. The other models are the Legislative Unanimity Model and the Direct Democracy Model.

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