On 9/5/08, James Gilmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With all due respect, what I was writing about was not subsidiarity. Nor has
subsidiarity (senu stricto) anything to do with the
proposal for how the EU and its Member States should deal with issues,
despite the abuse of the term
Jonathan Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:11 AM
There's a proposition on the November ballot in California that would
establish an independent commission to draw (single-member) state
legislative districts (the legislature draws them now). The list might
be interested in the
On 9/5/08, Stéphane Rouillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.citizensassembly.bc.ca/public/get_involved/submission/R/ROUILLON-65
You are welcome to comment. At least I hope you have fun reading it if you
find the time.
Your implementation of IRV is non-standard (though I agree with the
On 9/5/08, James Gilmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the larger assembly is deciding if power should be DELEGATED, it is
devolution that is in operation, not subsidiarity.
I guess it depends on how you want do define the term. I
don't think subsidiarity is determined by actual
Raph Frank wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Stéphane Rouillon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Juho,
using age, gender or other virtual dimension to build virtual districts
replaces geographic antagonism by generation antagonism.
The idea is to get equivalent sample that are not opposed by
On 9/5/08, Kristofer Munsterhjelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not really. The vote transfers happen indirectly through reduced
satisfication scores. If a voter doesn't vote for a party and instead votes
for a group of personal candidates, his satisfication score will be lowered
for the potential
Raph Frank Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 4:31 PM
I am trying to split the decision about what level a
particular power is exercised and the power to actually make
the decision.
In any case, you get back to the circular question about who
gets to decide who gets to decide. This needs
