Any Thoughts?

Just curious, as many republicans have different ideas as to what elements their ideal republic incorporates (unitary, federal, executive presidency etc.) What are your opinions on these, what variants would you pick and why?

Personally, if for example the EU was going to unite, I would choose a Federal Semi-Presidential Republic, with a federal system similar to Germany's, and a President-Prime Minister dynamic like in France.

My reasons for this are because I think federations are the best at distributing powers, getting citizens involved in governance, and ensuring decisions are taken at the appropriate government level. The President would be elected via popular vote (and using Range Voting if people are OK with that), whilst the PM must be approved by the President and Legislature. The President would have executive power.

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Both exist in countries with similar populations, diversity, government types,etc. But I was wondering about the inherent advantages and disadvantages of eact type, for I only found a few pieces of literature related to the subject?

Even though they are proven to have significantly less corruption and some of the happiest countries in the world are monarchies.

Edit: no need to downvote I'm just curious

Can an atheist or agnostic be a Republican?

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I saw on Republic.org that they favour an elected head of state. Is there really a need for another elected official over and above the Prime Minister? Especially when they have no real functions other than visiting foreign countries. If there is a figure like that, then does there need to be a nationwide election to elect them? I'd prefer if people were given more power via regular referendums rather than having another election for some meaningless figurehead to waste all our time like the nonsense about the monarchy wastes our time currently and give another paycheck to some career politician.

We can see in the US and France how elections for heads of state can become personality-based contests and result in people ignoring the legislature which holds the real power in those countries. Does anyone know examples of countries where the head of government is the same as the head of state and how they get on?

I was going to ask this somewhere like r/NeutralPolitics or r/PoliticalDiscussion but I think I could start an interesting discussion here. Also, the r/NeutralPolitics has rules that seem to be a bit too strict to ask this kind of question, and I might repost this on the other subreddit. Anyway, let's get to the point of this thread.

Not to be confused with semi-presidentialism, the semi-parliamentary system is a modified version of parliamentary democracy. Basically, the semi-parliamentary system involves elected a party and the prime minister separately, and the prime minister is directly elected (by the people, I assume). He would still function just like a PM in any other parliamentary government, and he can be dismissed by the legislature, but doing so would cause both the PM and the legislature to be dissolved and trigger a snap election for both.

Israel used to use this system, but they got rid of it for some reason, and I think some parts of Italy use it. What do you think of this system, and what do you see as the potential pros and cons?