As a matter of fact I have been waiting for some one to break the idea and to encourage the readers in this direction.
I have done some research on this concept, and I have some blue prints as well....
One problem is that collusion gives an advantage, so political parties will form again in another form. Here's the way I saw it explained in another forum:
Take a simple parliament of 5 people. If each person votes independently, they each have 20% of the power. Now, if three people form a "party" and always vote the same way, they now control the decision. The "party" has 100% power and each "party" member now has 33% of the total power.
One way to alleviate this problem would be to form a new committee for each piece of legislation and select committee members at random. The selection process (software) would make sure that people who have a history of voting together are less likely to be put in the same committee again.
Also, in order to guard against corruption and increase accountability and citizen participation, each politician would be required to hold open "office hours" or televised town hall meetings at least once a month.
Please do suggest how can this be shared ? and how can this be presented ?
Both of these ideas will be dead-on-arrival to the established politicians, along with other reforms like:
- abolish feudalism
- enforce taxation
- reform corruption
- make teachers and police into proper middle class professions using a combination of salary increase and tax exemptions
One option would be to identify a maverick, charismatic individual who could sell these ideas to the public. I haven't been following Imran Khan lately. I agree with a lot of his ideas, though he needs to be unequivocally supportive of our fight against the TTP.
Another option is to write up a proper manifesto and distribute it over the internet to college campuses, media outlets, etc. If you can put it up on a website, then it's a matter of publicising the website. One technique is called glamor bombing. For example, if you live in Pakistan, you can print up business cards with just the name of the website. Then volunteers can leave the business card all over the place, including inside library books and magazines, internet cafes, college notice boards, etc.