English to Serbian Social Sciences History proces demokratizacije država u XIX veku, podela vlasti na izvršnu, zakonodavnu i sudsku, i problem korupcije

In democratic states with devided powers, like the USA, government (i.e. the executive branch represented by the presidency) was in some degree independent of the elected parliament, though quite likely to be paralysed by its counterweight. In Europen pattern of representative government, where governments were in theory dependent on elected assemblies, their problems seemed unsuperable. In fact, they often came and went like tourist parties in hotels, as one brief parliamentary majority broke down and was succeded by another... Admittedly, the same names tended to reappear in most of them. As for the corruption, it was probably no grater than in the early nineteenth century, when governments such as the British had shared out the correctly named 'offices of profit under the Crown' and lucrative sinecure among their kinsmen and dependants. Yet, even when it was not, it was more visible, as self-made politicians cashed in, in one way or another, on the value of their support to businessmen or other interested parties... And even here a Civil Service Commission was set up in 1883 to lay the foundations of Federal Civil Service independant of political patronage. But patronage remained more important in most countries than is conventionally supposed.