Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist Jay Carson.

A quick correction before we get to today's show.

Last time, our question was, are current social safety net programs a sort of disguised socialism,

and are these programs consistent with capitalism? I said that that question came from Janet

in Silver City, New Mexico. Janet sent in a question similar to this, but she wanted to know

specifically about delegated welfare, where government uses non-state private actors to implement social programs.

That wasn't the question we answered, and we apologize for misattributing last week's question to you, Janet.

And now, on to the show.

Here's our Ask the Politics Guys question for this week, Jay.

Okay, fire away.

It comes from Alex in Hastings, Minnesota.

Alex writes,

Dear politics, guys, do you think our system would be more efficient if it were a parliamentary system with proportional representation instead of a presidential system with winner take all elections?

Now, I think it's a great question. I'm really

looking forward to talking about this. But before we get into our answers, I thought it would be

helpful if we explain some terms for listeners. So to start with, yeah, you're the, you're the professor.

Okay, let me let me see if I can take a shot. So a presidential system, all that means is,

is where you have a separately elected president and in an executive branch and then a legislative branch essentially.

Now, a parliamentary system, which most democracies have, the more popular one is where your chief executive type person, usually called a prime minister, comes out of the legislature. So you don't have

like a truly separate executive. So that's the difference there. There's also that distinction

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