Tigger - I agree that the issues should be discussed. I just think that now is a fairly unfortunate time to have those discussions, partly for the precise reason that you mentioned. If the pro-MMP camp start having a discussion / argument about fewer list ...
Amanda - Certainly I agree that these are all good things to talk about. But I think the best time to talk about tinkering with MMP is once we know MMP will still be around for us to tinker with. I do not think there are many people out there who are ...
On Lyn's concern about how many people an MP can effectively serve, I think it is all about what you are used to. In the US, members of Congress serve about 600,000 people each. They do it very effectively (much more so than our MPs do probably) backed by ...
On Tim's initial point (1), certainly in a lot of other democracies (exemplified by the US), most MP constituency work is done by highly skilled staffers. Certainly you could do that instead of having more electorate MPs, which has all the upsides of more ...
Yep, the 20 that came from Otago students were noted separately in the report. Your class accounted for a quarter of all the submissions.
Chris - This is the last time I will post on this thread. 1. On Germany, I never made the broad system-wide claim you say I made - that may have been the source of the confusion. 2. Jacobson was talking in the context of the localised, candidate centered, ...
Chris I will not be as thorough as you indoor soccer and delicious beverages beckon. Most importantly, if you honestly do not believe that reasonable people can disagree on controversial political issues like election financing, then you have failed to ...
Chris Taking your points, again, in order: 1. On Germany, I do not remember arguing that the German system was without blemish. But I did argue that the aspect of their system which I highlight in my submission does not, as you had claimed, advantage the ...
Chris First, thanks for taking the time to read and think about my submission. I mean that. It seems that you believe David's to be a better submission because its conclusions fit more closely with your own ideas. I make this statement based on your first ...
Ari - It is entirely possible that candidates before Bush went without FEC matching funds. Once I had found out that David's claim about Obama was wrong, I stopped looking.
PS - David, I did note the point you have made in a number of forums about there being many dimensions to political participation other than money, and I specifically address it in my submission.
David Welcome home and I hope you enjoyed the Koru Lounge you mentioned on Kiwiblog this morning. Taking your points in order: 1. I also advocated no limit to parallel campaigns, so long as there is a limit on total political donations from one source (as ...
Thanks to the Standardistas for letting me post here, and thanks also to r0b for the props. In answer to r0b's question, yes I think the Nats' process for the electoral finance review is pretty good. The big test, however, will be in crafting a proposed ...
Hey check it out, it is one note burt. Burt doesn't like talking about substance - he prefers trotting out old quotes to prove how cool he is. Good for him. To answer your question burt, no I would not support National doing as you suggest. That is because...
All the compounding, of interest and growth and such, is built into Treasury's NZSF model.
GC - First, the hole is actually $23 billion once you take the tax effects into account - see Keith Ng's excellent math job on this. And second, the question isn't really whether the now-missing money would have been a silver bullet that magically solves ...
Oh dear. This is a large oops moment for the Nats. Yo add insult to injury, here is David Farrar saying that anyone making the Treasury's $8 billion modeling projection is "pretending to be stupid." So I guess he is saying the Treasury was pretending to be...
Ari While I share your enthusiasm for intra-party transparency and democracy up to a point, I would not want the State getting involved in financially rewarding particular forms of political party activity. That, for my taste, runs a little too close to ...
RedLogix Thanks for the comment. The argument you make about assured funding leading politicians to not care quite so much about their broad support base is a persuasive one, although I haven't found a lot of rigourous evidence to back it up. Have you seen...
Hi Rex - Thanks for the nice comments, and I'm glad you enjoyed the thing. If you are interested in the German financing system, they have some nice publications about it, in English, at: http://www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/parliament/function/party_funding/...
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Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, john key, national
Tags: cabinet manual, polity, rob salmond, simon bridges
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Tags: gordon campbell, policy, policy costing, rob salmond
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Tags: obvious spin, policy vacuum, polls, rob salmond
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Tags: asset sales, polity, rob salmond
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Tags: no right turn, rob salmond
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