There should be no doubt that efficiencies in political science directly translate to economic growth and martial security. The flaws are generally ruthlessly exploited by opposition parties and political opponents. One of the biggest inhibitors to the refinement and evolution of political technologies is the fact that political power is guarded with such ferocity. Often the only successful method at modernizing a political system is temporarily losing sovereignty or rejecting its authority and participating in the formation of a new state with new procedures, laws, and powers. The consequence is a rather barren environment in regards to political diversity. Concepts are introduced infrequently and often face incredible resistance from the enfranchised and establishment. Part of the reason for this emotional over-reaction is the terror involved in altering the current right and entitlement system that provides access for the majority of citizens. Democracy is durable but is also assailed by the most ancient of enemies: Free Will. A people can be the vessel of their own destruction by demanding defaults on sovereign debt, by deregulating the political markets, or by contributing to their own auto-colonization by supporting the corporate classes limiting their labor rights and economic opportunities. Voting rights present the danger of mismanagement which carry long term consequences of ruinous economy and political instability – and it’s almost unavoidable as popular sentiments are fickle, reactionary, and often appear irrational in retrospect.
The most important themes in modern politics are the protection of representational government and checks and balances between the branches. Representational government is hard to achieve through gradual reforms specifically because enfranchised segments will resist relinquishing their advantages. Often the best solution and only strategy is to creating an offsetting advantage for another segment of the population. This can be achieved through the moderation or manipulation of voter eligibility criteria and the mode of representation. Nothing is more efficient than representational government based upon residence and population but in its absence representation can be based on income, assets, veteran experience, political caste, and tax liabilities. Obviously representation won’t be distributed equally among the various aspects of the society and civilization but it need not be if all are satisfied with their exclusive enfranchise.
Checks and balances between the branches are of extreme importance to preserve political stability and promote role specialization. However there is no reason to maintain only the most fundamental of divisions. Unitary executive branches can be as dire a liability as often as they can be an amazing efficiency. Most modern executives delegate responsibility among the various secretaries and agency directors. Greater specialization might promote better function despite the more numerous and less powerful executives being forced to negotiate with each other. Without a doubt when he citizenry is given an opportunity to elect a professional with related and more accurate expertise aligned with the executive office’s primary responsibilities they will do so. The net benefit will be more expert and better trained personnel occupying those offices. Those will military experience will gravitate to those executive offices charged with martial security and state duties. Those will regulatory and law enforcement experience will tend to campaign for Attorney General duties. And those with education and experience in economics and finance will strive for Treasury duties. Each candidate allowed to focus within the discipline they were trained in rather than a general executive officer making profound decisions on issues they have only moderate or tertiary expertise in. They will all still command legions of advisors and experts to provide counsel and resource information but they will also maintain their own personal belief systems manufactured after years of exposure to the issues – and they will be elected based on those biases and inclinations rather than relying on the protection of party ideology to convey intent prior to earning the office.
Tripartite Executive Systems permits the specialization of Executive responsibilities into three distinct departments with the division primarily occurring along the Presidential (Military-State), The Treasurer General (Treasury, Fed Reserve, Labor, etc), and Attorney General (Law Enforcement and Regulatory) capacities with each new grouping entitled to one chief executive. The overlap in jurisdiction is purposeful in that it provides an immediate check to the powers of one executive prior to the more fundamental checks provided by the Legislative and Judicial branches. They will need to coordinate their activities and negotiate their powers with each other in the same respect legislators on committees must negotiate for reforms and for action. The immediate checks produced are fairly routine and predictable; the military leader relinquishes control over the domestic law enforcement agencies, the chief economist (treasurer) loses domain over regulating the private sector institutions they interface with, and the of course the chief law enforcer is checked by a military leader providing oversight against severe encroachments on civil liberties and political rights.
Tripartite systems are not the only reform available; unitary executive branches can be bifurcated into two or split into fractal organizations each with an independently elected official. More complicated systems could even see the realignment of executive or legislative duties. An executive branch already produces a huge number of administrative laws which are just as valid as the laws passed by the general legislature. It would not be an overambitious leap for executive branches to occupy a void created by the dissolution of a congress or legislature. Legislators can just as easily assume responsibilities previously accorded to the executive department which can lead to a re-organization of powers between the branches which obviously requires the evaluation of checks and balances between the enhanced branches.