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[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

A bit quiet here now.

For those political nerds out there I am wondering if you have a favorite form of government. Any particular representative countries?

I like the collective leadership of the Swiss Confederation. And the national referendums. I also like what is called the Washminster mutation of Australia. In more granular details, I like the "sexennial" single term presidency of Mexico and I recently learned of The Philippines unless I am mistaken.

Not really a fan of semi-presidential systems.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

My favourite form of government is probably a parliamentary democracy with an executive presidency.

From what I can tell, presidentialism is probably some flavour of undemocratic (a single president can never adequately represent a whole population, and should not be entrusted with sweeping powers), but in conventional parliamentary setups, presidents are kinda pointless figureheads. So instead of having a powerless figurehead president kinda-not-really in charge, the Prime Minister could (and in most cases already does) act as the head of state when representing the country abroad for instance, while still requiring the confidence of parliament to remain in office. Power would ultimately remain with parliament.

As for my favourite voting system: I found out about approval voting a few years ago, and I've been especially intrigued by sequential proportional approval voting as a means of electing proportional parliaments that is both 1) not reliant on political parties and 2) easier to explain, conduct and tabulate than ranked choice methods. I dunno, something about this is just neat to me.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

My favourite form of government is probably a parliamentary democracy with an executive presidency.

From what I can tell, presidentialism is probably some flavour of undemocratic (a single president can never adequately represent a whole population, and should not be entrusted with sweeping powers), but in conventional parliamentary setups, presidents are kinda pointless figureheads. So instead of having a powerless figurehead president kinda-not-really in charge, the Prime Minister could (and in most cases already does) act as the head of state when representing the country abroad for instance, while still requiring the confidence of parliament to remain in office. Power would ultimately remain with parliament.

As for my favourite voting system: I found out about approval voting a few years ago, and I've been especially intrigued by sequential proportional approval voting as a means of electing proportional parliaments that is both 1) not reliant on political parties and 2) easier to explain, conduct and tabulate than ranked choice methods. I dunno, something about this is just neat to me.

I've never liked a combined head of state and head of government. In the US, for example, we have seldom had presidents who have been able to succeed at both. I therefore tend to view parliamentary republics like India with a symbolic (with some reserve powers for exceptional use) presidency and a prime minister as head of day-to-day administration favorably. If Talossa became a republic then I would suggest looking to the Irish presidency (long term of office, reserve powers, officially described as "first citizen") as an example or if I had my druthers a collective directory with a rotating "first among equals" symbolic president like Switzerland.

You mentioned something called liquid democracy in another thread and I am attracted to that system. I believe the German Pirate Party uses it to some extent. Do you have ideas on how it might be implemented in Talossa? Florencia's constitutional reform has the potential for radical solutions.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

You mentioned something called liquid democracy in another thread and I am attracted to that system. I believe the German Pirate Party uses it to some extent. Do you have ideas on how it might be implemented in Talossa? Florencia's constitutional reform has the potential for radical solutions.

A more straightforward form of this would be proxy voting. Florencians would be given the choice of claiming a seat in the assembly directly, or to delegate their seat to someone else. M-M already operates under this system, but I don't remember the last time votes were delegated there.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

You mentioned something called liquid democracy in another thread and I am attracted to that system. I believe the German Pirate Party uses it to some extent. Do you have ideas on how it might be implemented in Talossa? Florencia's constitutional reform has the potential for radical solutions.

A more straightforward form of this would be proxy voting. Florencians would be given the choice of claiming a seat in the assembly directly, or to delegate their seat to someone else. M-M already operates under this system, but I don't remember the last time votes were delegated there.

@Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be @mximo Governor and Senator, this is something to be considered in Florencia's Constitutional Reform Committee once you all are ready to dig in.