Here’s an idea: Every election, you randomly choose ~5-10 people for each seat, and these are your candidates. If you’re not selected, you can’t run. To make sure people actually want to be elected, let’s also make the salary really enticing for the representatives.
Maybe, just maybe, let’s also make the incumbent one of the candidates, so you can get re-elected if you do a good job and people like you (but I’m really not sure about this part).
I think it’d help make the composition of Parliament mirror more closely that of the general population.
I wish more people thought like this and realized that as humans, we can make whatever system we want. We have infinite possibilities and surely can find systems that do what we desire.
That’s the whole point of technology. Out of all the possibilities, we found the design that turns light into electricity. If only we realized politics can work the same way.
Here’s an idea: Every election, you randomly choose ~5-10 people for each seat, and these are your candidates. If you’re not selected, you can’t run. To make sure people actually want to be elected, let’s also make the salary really enticing for the representatives. Maybe, just maybe, let’s also make the incumbent one of the candidates, so you can get re-elected if you do a good job and people like you (but I’m really not sure about this part).
I think it’d help make the composition of Parliament mirror more closely that of the general population.
I wish more people thought like this and realized that as humans, we can make whatever system we want. We have infinite possibilities and surely can find systems that do what we desire.
That’s the whole point of technology. Out of all the possibilities, we found the design that turns light into electricity. If only we realized politics can work the same way.
Sortition was used in ancient Athens for a while for exactly this reason