Alternatives to Eidelberg's election scheme

Eidelberg's proposal, in combination with some form of élite "senate" or upper legislative chamber, would be a method of choosing a chief executive who was both independent from the legislative branch and likely to be competent. It would accomplish this by relying on the senate to identify qualified presidential candidates, but making the successful candidate dependent on popular support to remain in office . . . .

Notwithstanding the indispensable role of the legislative branch, the choice of the chief executive is, as I think Eidelberg somewhere observes, the most crucial decision the political system must arrive at. Theoretically speaking, his proposal thus seems extremely important.

There are two or three other possible ways that I can see of achieving the same combination of competence and independence from the legislative branch . . . . CONTINUE