Administration
This section treats various parts of administration. Naturally, we want it to be meritocratic, and you can find our vision of a better democracy in the corresponding section. How do we make sure that the people best suited get positions of leadership and representation? Stands to reason that a thorough holistic review is needed.
Guiding Principles:
Types of Organization
- Stimulate cooperation between private and public actors
- Find a middle-way between socialism and capitalism
- Develop shared ICT infrastructure between all levels
- Minimize bureaucracy through automation/digitization
Nature of Government
- Government should be neither paterna- or maternalistic
- In favor of separation of religion and state, but not God
- Remove toxic short-term thinking in current politics
- Utilize more incentive systems in public sector
- Combine base-pay and pay-for-performance
Representation
- Make sure representatives actually are representative
Finding Leaders with Merit
- Thoroughly review candidates for positions of leadership
- Exhaustive mental and physical evaluation
- Verify abilities in their domain
- Public officials should be experts in their field
Anti-Corruption
- Demand disclosure of all possible conflicts of interest
- Special fines for those failing to disclose such conflicts
Politicians as Implementers of the “Will of the People”
- Transition from political parties to survey-based system
- I.e. more expression of individuality and merit
- Increase use of referendums
- Administrative expert team to implement our will
- Result of survey should be their guideline