Re:A “perfect” voting system
by DRMacIver on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @11:01AM
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> Not only would this rob the legislature of experience,
I'm not sure it does, or at least not drastically: It robs the legislature of individual experience, but on average there's no reason you'd expect each politician to be in for the first time. They could even rerun later.
> it would also mean politicians towards the end of each term would be focused on securing their next job, rather than performing their current one.
This is a really easy problem to solve: You give a recently ousted MP a paid vacation after their term is up.
(This works better of course if you stagger elections rather than electing everyone at once, but it's fine without)
I'm not sure it does, or at least not drastically: It robs the legislature of individual experience, but on average there's no reason you'd expect each politician to be in for the first time. They could even rerun later.
> it would also mean politicians towards the end of each term would be focused on securing their next job, rather than performing their current one.
This is a really easy problem to solve: You give a recently ousted MP a paid vacation after their term is up.
(This works better of course if you stagger elections rather than electing everyone at once, but it's fine without)