Re: [Election-Methods] Partisan Politics + Candidate selection

2008-06-12 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Afternoon, Kevin When reading, did you see the [Election-Methods] Selecting Leaders From The People post from February 4th? A major impediment to selecting our leaders FROM the people is the role of political parties, and that led to the discussion on this thread. The cited post

Re: [Election-Methods] Partisan Politics + Candidate selection

2008-06-10 Thread Kevin Venzke
Hi, I read your (Fred's) link and most of James'. The selection model rings true in my opinion. But it also suits me for it to ring true, since I prefer to imagine that the voter elects a representative perhaps not based on detailed policy stances, and then the elected representative does as he

Re: [Election-Methods] Partisan Politics + Candidate selection

2008-06-06 Thread James Gilmour
Fred, Juho I have changed the subject as this post (and my reply) appeared to address a specific subset of the problem. You MAY find it interesting to see what was said about candidate selection in a different but similar political system. The Electoral Reform Society asked an independent