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Originally Posted by Agemegos
Also, like the Kingdom of Poland. Also, like the Kingdom of Sweden until 1544, the Kingdom of England until Plantagenet times, and the Kingdom of France until the 13th century. It's common for European monarchies to have been originally elective and gone through a phase in which the king forced the electors to elect a designated heir as co-king before developing into legally hereditary monarchies. The boundaries are often blurry.
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An awful lot of the first round listed are historical systems:
#2 was another phase athens went through. (the rich hired former lawyers to teach them how to present their own cases).
#6 is representative of modern Iran and of mormon utah. Its also somewhat similar to how single-party systems work at their most function (some have no competition, but some actually allow real races between party members).
#9 describes the prime minister of 1700's england.
#14 is heavily inspired by the mandarins of china.
Continuing to add to the lists:
20: Elections are lotteries, but instead of directly picking citizens, each citizen submits a proxy and one citizen's proxy is chosen at random.