Comments on: Foreword – Lindsay Tanner http://cpd.org.au/2009/08/foreword-lindsay-tanner/ Making good ideas matter Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:36:00 +1100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Colmeryhttp://cpd.org.au/2009/08/foreword-lindsay-tanner/#comment-446 Colmery Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:28:38 +0000 http://cpd.org.au/archives/5012#comment-446 There is no matter of greater importance than working out what the next evolutionary step that liberal democracies should take with their political systems to achieve a better outcome. However, the very problems that blight our existing systems will stymie progress unless the approach taken to renewal is itself free from the tyranny of a majority exploited by publishers and politicians. To at least put a possibility up for scrutiny, how about elections that select representatives who then vote for a pool from which which parliamentarians are randomly selected. There are problems with this, some of which are shown by the Term Limits movement in the USA, but these are all small problems and they are soluble whereas systems that manipulate the most vulnerable voters are irredeemably flawed.Is anyone doing anything concrete on this topic? There is no matter of greater importance than working out what the next evolutionary step that liberal democracies should take with their political systems to achieve a better outcome. However, the very problems that blight our existing systems will stymie progress unless the approach taken to renewal is itself free from the tyranny of a majority exploited by publishers and politicians. To at least put a possibility up for scrutiny, how about elections that select representatives who then vote for a pool from which which parliamentarians are randomly selected. There are problems with this, some of which are shown by the Term Limits movement in the USA, but these are all small problems and they are soluble whereas systems that manipulate the most vulnerable voters are irredeemably flawed.

Is anyone doing anything concrete on this topic?

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