1) Source of Legitimacy: could be an established monarchy, a (pseudo-?)democratic body, an army, a religious hierarchy or "something else?"
2) An Executive: could be an individual, a bureaucratic ministry, a party, military or religious hierarchy or "something else?"
3) A Legislature: could be an individual, a unicameral or bicameral elected or appointed body, a bureaucratic department or "something else?"
4) A Judiciary: could be elected, appointed, oligarchic, religious or military - or "something else?"
I think that one current problem with Vicky 2's government reform system is that it basically lacks substantial amounts of hysteresis. The path a government takes to arrive at its present laws and form is not really present in that you can basically jump around between unrelated values, with the only limits being that you have to do this in steps. A more historical system I think would be to somehow give a certain kind of directionality to each country's government progression, a story if you will of how each government becomes what it is. I know this is a little vague on what I mean, but I guess what I'm suggesting is something to reflect how people in a country are aware of past changes and struggles (or the lack of them) and how this has I think a profound effect on the political values of a population, and consequently the changes in a government.
I know that plurality in Vicky 2 sort of hints at this with it's tooltip describing an awareness of past political achievements and revanchism does too a little bit, but these are pretty much unidirectional values. I think it would be great if you could have some measure of underlying values in a population that maintained a constancy and found multiple manifestations as different political ideals. Political ideals change with the times, but the underlying values I think change more slowly. Political parties do not so much wax and wane as evolve into each other.
At the end of Vicky 3 I hope not to see a political pie chart evenly divided between every political strain existing between 1790 and 1930, nor should there be endgame parties which every country naturally settles on. Politics and the government should be an interesting conclusion with the imprint of past events, yet a predominance of current ones.
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