Leading questions:

Representative vs Direct Democracy?

Unitary or Federal?

Presidential or Parliamentary?

How much separations of powers should there be? In presidential systems, such as the United States of America, there is often deadlock between the executive and legislature. In parliamentary systems, the head of government is elected by legislature, therefore, there is practically no deadlock as long as theres is majority support of the executive in the legislature (although, there can still be courts to determine constitutionality of policiss). Would you prefer more checks and balances, but can also result in more deadlock, or a government more easily able to enact policies, for better or for worse?

Electoral method? FPTP? Two-Round? Ranked-Choice/Single-Transferable Vote? What about legislature? Should there be local districts? Single or Multi member districts? Proportional-representation based on votes for a party? If so, how should the party-lists be determined?

Should anti-democratic parties be banned? Or should all parties be allowed to compete in elections, regardless of ideology? In Germany, they practice what’s called “Defensive Democracy” which bans any political parties (and their successors) that are anti-democratic. Some of banned political parties include the nazi party.

How easy or difficult should the constitution br allowed to be changed? Majority support or some type of supermajority support?

Should we really elect officials, or randomly select them via sortition?

These are just some topics to think about, you don’t have to answer all of them.

Edit: Clarified some things

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Representative, federal, parliamentary, bicameral

    The hard line I’ll draw is proportional elections; I’m against. We should vote for candidates, not parties. Parties I like throw up duds, and parties I dislike sometimes put forth quality candidates; it should be I, not some party leader, who chooses who will represent me.

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      1 year ago

      So what electoral system do you propose? One-mandate districts? Using sorting elect. mothod and than take the first n candidates? STV?

      Also note that for bicameral solution it’s good to use different methods.