@ChrisMayLA6 Hmm, this requires serious out of the boxing thinking. What about continuous overlapping voting?
Instead of voting every 4 years, and risking losing to one side or another, thus losing the benfits of long term policies, what about elections for a part of the parliament every year or every second year to avoid the all or nothing approach? It would be a phased approach.
Another thing I could imagine is abolishing formal parties and the modern party structure. The parliament
Comments
Displaying 0 of 1 comments
h4890
In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 would be a bunch of citizens, and they of course would have to cooperate, but they would not have a party, and party policy to force them.
Nietzsche warned against political parties and saw it as a threat to democracy. I can definitely see how that could be the case.
A third tried and true, would be the greek system of adding more random change to the mix to make sure to really get a peoples parliament.
That might, on the other hand make governance very volatile and difficult
@h4890
Yes, I had quite a lot of that in my proposal for reforming the UK's chamber... but for me the nightwatchman state ends up being a nighwatchman for the small minority, and that seems to me to be in itself anti-democratic
by Emeritus Prof Christopher May ;
Mentions: @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
Likes: 0
Replies: 1
Boosts: 0