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| May 21 at 14:02 | comment | added | vinzzz001 | You might be better of just putting a minimum level of ability on who can run for the elections. Or give the people a list of the top 100 with the most fitting candidates to choose from. | |
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| May 20 at 10:58 | answer | added | Going Durden | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 19 at 22:19 | comment | added | KerrAvon2055 | @gs the risk there is that you get a few decades or centuries later you have a test and rules that are completely outdated by changes in regional politics, economics, magical practice etc. Yes, the alternative is to have the person setting the test and making the rules favour their preferred candidate, but there are easier ways to create safeguards than trying for a consitutional amendment (however that works?) every time a test question or rule needs updating. | |
| May 18 at 18:07 | answer | added | Nepene Nep | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 18 at 16:45 | answer | added | Richard Kirk | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 18 at 7:23 | answer | added | Atif | timeline score: 1 | |
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| May 17 at 15:56 | comment | added | g s | I would suggest putting your selection test and tournament rules into the constitution. If your selection test is written by the current council of rulers, then "knows how to manage the country" inevitably means "agrees with all of of the test-writer's policy proposals and isn't part of the Undesirable Others Outgroup". | |
| May 17 at 15:17 | answer | added | SoronelHaetir | timeline score: 4 | |
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| May 17 at 14:31 | comment | added | sphennings | Can you define what it means for a government to work? How exactly do you expect us to say whether an ill defined fantasy government will work when we cannot say with any level of certainty whether a real world government will work or not? | |
| May 17 at 14:30 | comment | added | GiantSpaceHamster | If you have popular vote you can't have meritocracy (unless the quality you're selecting for is popularity). Some people will always vote for the candidate they like the most rather than who they feel is the most qualified. You could have meritocracy of sorts if the winner of your competition automatically became the ruler, without the vote at the end. | |
| May 17 at 14:10 | comment | added | David R | The biggest problem with any political system is corruption. There are many, many people with money but not in political power who want to make things happen to their favor. No matter who is in power, these people will approach them with gifts, etc. to get access and then to try to convince them that what they want will be "good for the person in power." This is why the US Founding Fathers built the separation of power and repeated elections. | |
| May 17 at 14:06 | answer | added | ihaveideas | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 17 at 14:05 | comment | added | Cadence | Why would people vote for the winner of this fighting tournament instead of, for instance, someone who supports policies they like or somebody endorsed by people they trust? | |
| May 17 at 13:46 | comment | added | AlexP | "Populous" vote? And once you have magic stuff, you are not writing a realistic story. You probably mean verisimilar, but even so the degree of verisimilitude depends very much more on the skill of the story teller than on the actual mechanics of the plot. | |
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