"Use local elections to select above-average representatives. Randomly assign representatives to roles in city, county, state, and national government. Candidate representatives would not know ahead of time to which role they would be assigned. I suspect the optimal number is one representative for every 1,000 to 5,000 citizens. (Small numbers of citizens per representative would mean some elected representatives would not be assigned roles.)"I think this is completely unworkable as posited but there might be a germ of an idea here.
Monday, January 17, 2011
On Electing Effective Governments
Preston L. Bannister { random memes } | A personal viewpoint about software, the web, and anything else of note.:
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