Many worry that partisanship in the U.S. leads to policy paralysis, but political disagreement here pales in comparison to the European Union, which has 27 member states whose political landscapes feature far more parties than the two-party system in the U.S. The U.S. also possesses a single jurisdictional political entity that allows it to enforce a common fiscal and monetary policy across all of its parts.
FORBES: The United States Need Not Become Europe