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"if you still value the notion that local communities should be able to have their collective power represented" Your town assembly can take care of the concer
by lkrubner 4y ago
"if you still value the notion that local communities should be able to have their collective power represented"
Your town assembly can take care of the concerns of your town.
Your regional assembly can take care of the concerns of your region.
Your National Assembly can take care of the concerns of your nation.
We can get rid of gerrymandering and still have different levels of government, each devoted to a particular level of localism.
Indeed, having one level of localism interfere in the affairs of another level of localism seems like a violation of encapsulation, in the sense that a software developer would understand the concept.
- Taniwha 4y agoHere in NZ (but also in Germany and I'm sure other places) we use MMP - it's pretty simple - take your existing setup and halve the number of representative seats - we all get 2 votes the first vote chooses a local representative for your local seat. The 2nd vote is for a party, each party provides a list of candidates before the election, you count up the parties who have won the local representative seats, then hand out the same number of list seats so that the proportion of seats in total (list and representative district) match the proportions of the party vote - some places have a minimum threshold (3-5%) for a party to be included in that count.
- hnaccount_rng 4y agoGermany is a little bit more complicated as we also take into account proportionality on the level of each state. And you (at least in general) more than double the size of parliament. But the gist is correct.