If the people in power had the desire to enforce honesty and and goodwill in politics the problem would be solved already.
How do you know that it’s not some sort of prison dilemma situation, where everyone would want to be more honest but it just doesn’t pay off for any player to move in that direction?
I don’t know that! I don’t think it’s the situation, but even if it was, whatever payoff matrix exists that keeps it from happening is the same as what would keep THIS suggestion from happening.
The metagame here is the media environment and campaign habits. It doesn’t seem to me like you have to already be in office to affect it at least some.
How do you know that it’s not some sort of prison dilemma situation, where everyone would want to be more honest but it just doesn’t pay off for any player to move in that direction?
I don’t know that! I don’t think it’s the situation, but even if it was, whatever payoff matrix exists that keeps it from happening is the same as what would keep THIS suggestion from happening.
Not necessarily. The metagame doesn’t have to have the same structure as the game.
Insofar as you need to win the game to even be able to play the metagame it doesn’t matter what structure the metagame is.
The metagame here is the media environment and campaign habits. It doesn’t seem to me like you have to already be in office to affect it at least some.
in that case the metagame is way HARDER than the actual game, and if you could control the media then you wouldn’t need to etc.
Yes. It is easier to get elected than to change the entire election system. People get elected year after year, and the system doesn’t change.