[EM] Partisan Politics, or Rising Above It

[Juho Laatu]

--- On Mon, 16/2/09, Michael Allan <mike at zelea.com> wrote:

> OK, a time series Tx, Ty, ...

>   Tx(p)  ~=  Ty(p)  for all Tx, Ty     [always]
> 
>   Tx(q)  ~=  Ty(q)  for all Tx, Ty     [usually]

(p = practicality, q = probability)

One can model the world in different ways.
One could say that everything that will
happen has probability 1 and everything
else has probability 0. Same with
practicalities.

An alternative approach is to identify
some area in the world that is assumed to
vary. In this model p may set the space
where the end result may vary, and q
operates in the remaining space. The
space of variation could be could depend
on the interest group the discusses the
alternatives (could be e.g. a country,
a party, citizens, election reformists).


One more observation on sequential
transitions and IT based direct democracy
style systems. If the political system of
the USA was initially planned to operate
without parties but then quickly changed
to a system that has parties, then one
could expect also the new system to have
similar tendencies, i.e. interest groups
would find ways to influence the system.

Juho