“It's a real public service to have debates that bring top-tier participants together and add the sizzle of prize fight competition to a discussion of issues of first-order importance.”
Why Parties?: The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America John H. Aldrich, University of Chicago Press, June 1995 (new edition in May 2011)
What Is Proportional Representation? World Policy Institute
Win or Lose Anthony Gottleib, New Yorker, July 26, 2010
Presidential vs. Parliamentary Government
The Institutional Foundations of Democratic Government: A Comparison of Presidential and Parliamentary Systems Terry M. Moe, Michael Caldwell, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 1994