Steven Den Beste has three typically long but worthwhile posts on the US electoral system, specifically on the (de facto) two-party system (which is really a two-coalition system), the system's high "noise rejection factor" (which is why Americans can better afford to be Freedom of Speech 'fundamentalists' than Europeans), and The Electoral College, which actually does not favor big states as much as commonly thought.
A fourth, unrelated post is on diplomatic double-talk. For instance, the EU use of "fruitful dialogue".
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