The EU 'supreme court' is always packed with lefties and judicial activists. One cannot even rely on an occasional right wing EU government to balance it out with their own people.
This document contains values for most countries. https://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/people/michael_gallagher/ElSystems/Docts/ElectionIndices.pdf It's annoying that this isn't computer friendly, but eyeballing this approach, the results seem in line with my approach. That's not so surprising because this index is one of those squared sum then square root things that statisticians love.
Is balance having 50/50 right-left? I'd say it's better to have a 33% split between left-centrist-right(with the centrism being a difficult political ideology to prove, i.e. one can easily support either extreme's rhetoric behind the centrist veil). Nevertheless American politics do prove that having a clear dividing line between two sides only radicalises the two positions to a farther extent, rendering both parties inapt to enact even the most sensible and usually bipartisan policies, and gives bigger importance to try and win over electorates. Having two many parties can also hinder proper government functioning. Like with everything, democratic governance probably has an optimum but no one has really found it (well maybe Germany, even though their recent track record is quite unimpressive).
Nice analysis -- seems that Hungary is in line with some other western Democracies on this metric.
Maybe the worse anti-democratic action on Orban's part is his packing of the Constitutional Court.
Obviously that would never happen in the US (kidding ... but, at least, it *hasn't* happened in the US or other western countries yet.)
The EU 'supreme court' is always packed with lefties and judicial activists. One cannot even rely on an occasional right wing EU government to balance it out with their own people.
After I wrote this, Jurij pointed out that there are several standard approaches to this. E.g. this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagher_index
This document contains values for most countries. https://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/people/michael_gallagher/ElSystems/Docts/ElectionIndices.pdf It's annoying that this isn't computer friendly, but eyeballing this approach, the results seem in line with my approach. That's not so surprising because this index is one of those squared sum then square root things that statisticians love.
Is balance having 50/50 right-left? I'd say it's better to have a 33% split between left-centrist-right(with the centrism being a difficult political ideology to prove, i.e. one can easily support either extreme's rhetoric behind the centrist veil). Nevertheless American politics do prove that having a clear dividing line between two sides only radicalises the two positions to a farther extent, rendering both parties inapt to enact even the most sensible and usually bipartisan policies, and gives bigger importance to try and win over electorates. Having two many parties can also hinder proper government functioning. Like with everything, democratic governance probably has an optimum but no one has really found it (well maybe Germany, even though their recent track record is quite unimpressive).