| > Terms limits are a red herring. Yes and: Disempowering legislators empowers administrators and lobbyists. Power is zero sum. I supported term limits until I saw first hand how agency heads run circles around legislators. Now, I advocate making legislators more powerful, more independent, and therefore less dependent on lobbyists, contributors, and agencies. Make legislating a real, full time job. More resources for staff, to help mitigate infoglut and provide real constituent services. Etc, etc. > campaign funding and competitive districts/gerrymandering. Absolutely. I advocate pretty much all the good government reforms. Public financing of campaigns, approval voting for executive positions, proportional representation for assemblies, restoring fairness doctrine, open government as default (eg something like data.gov for most everything). Etc, etc. PS- Lawrence Krubner's blog Demodexio is really good. Dives into nonobvious, nonsexy, common sense fundamental structural reforms for democracy, elections, and policy work. So far, Krubner's advocacy matches my own experiences and observations. Here's just one great example: Should the votes from voters combine on a per-issue basis, rather than a per-party or a per-candidate basis? [2022/05/13]
Why did Kenneth Arrow think that Approval Voting would do a better job of bringing to the surface the real concerns of voters? https://demodexio.substack.com/p/should-the-votes-from-voter... |