The Italian government was much more efficient under Mussolini.
This is (part of) the tension. The last time the Italians concentrated the power of government, they ended up on the wrong side of a world war.
Having no tradition of the common law, Europeans do not do balanced power well. Better to have feeble government than efficient despotism.
——they ended up on the wrong side of a world war.-—
The lust for power overcomes the responsibility to govern well