The 'king' factor in politics and governance.
The best systems of political rule combine continuity with a system of pressure let-off points to allow for public political expression. Continuity fosters stability in the society, while the pressure venting points prevent chaos which would emerge if the public didn’t have a way to vent out their combined frustrations with being governed. Such a system requires a ‘king’, to offer continuity and political institutions to allow for public political expression, as everybody likes to have a say in how they are managed. The political institutions are really in the service of the king, or figurehead, who remains the leader of the ‘kingdom’ with absolute power and authority. A system of governance which is an administrative function of the king should be free of political interference, by being only answerable to the king, not the public or the political institutions set up by the king in his other administrative function of setting up the structures. From a society wide point of view, tha...