Proportional representation is not the global panacea that some of its more excitable proponents would have you believe. It's not the "one weird trick" that will usher in a golden age of reasonable and reasoned governance. But the current system - a cartel of major parties guarding the mechanisms by which they keep their position... Continue Reading →
Incumbency tactics – build a “common sense” (a la Gramsci)/capture the policy networks and possibilities
One of my favourite quotes about politics, policy etc is this "The definition of alternatives is the supreme instrument of power." It's by a basically forgotten American political scientist called E.E. Schattschneider. It kinda gels with a bunch of other stuff about institutional guard-rails, and Gramsci's notion of hegemony and common sense (as opposed to... Continue Reading →
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