interregnums

Another question: If we cut the interregnums between election and taking office to, say, a week or two, does that mean every recount requires that seat to be vacant for months?

Matthew Yglesias » Presidential Trouble

Having just emerged from a bruising, exhausting two-year struggle to write and ratify the American charter, Madison thought repeating this task would create "pernicious factions" that would repeatedly deadlock, leaving the nation with no government at all during such "interregnums."

Wall Street Protesters Channel Thomas Jefferson

The first is Chaos -- which could be a temporary state of affairs, as often occurs in global interregnums, or something more enduring.

Paul Starobin: Five Roads to the Future -- Whose Century Will This Be?

The neo-conservative is willing to leave those problems to be coped with by liberal interregnums.

Winner-Take-All Politics

The economy did very poorly in the long interregnums of early 1921 and early 1933, when no one was in charge.

What Caused the Panic?, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Fortunately for me, I was in during one of the short interregnums: between Korea and Vietnam.

The Volokh Conspiracy » They Made a Multilateralism and Called It Peace

If America is prone to great awakenings, it is in part because of more spiritually sleepy interregnums during which science and philosophy - not to mention secularists and even the occasional atheist - manage to have a say.

Francis Wilkinson: Why Giuliani Gets Away With It

A look at the interregnums of popes, kings and presidents.

Between the Acts

And historically during interregnums, presidents try not to make any waves.

CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2008

And historically, presidents during this interregnums try to avoid making any waves.

CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2008