On the other hand public funding of elections actually works. You actually need well funded parties that are funded through government money as actors if you don’t want rich people to dominate the political system.
Then you get into the question of what qualifies as a party for purposes of getting public money. I can see this degenerating into a system for keeping non-established parties out.
Then you get into the question of what qualifies as a party for purposes of getting public money. I can see this degenerating into a system for keeping non-established parties out.
I think our German system works quite well in that regard. The main reason the pirate party didn’t join the Bundestag is they were largely incompetent. Infighting weakened them.
Snowden gave them the perfect topic but all they did do is being reactive and saying the establishment is bad instead of developing policy ideas with they could have pushed into reality.
The main problem with establishing a new party is getting competent people together who are willing to think deeply about public policy and who don’t destroy each other through infighting.
I think our German system works quite well in that regard. The main reason the pirate party didn’t join the Bundestag is they were largely incompetent.
I don’t know that much about the German system, how is the public funding allocated among the political parties? Did the Pirate Party get public funding? What about say the AfD?
Then you get into the question of what qualifies as a party for purposes of getting public money. I can see this degenerating into a system for keeping non-established parties out.
I think our German system works quite well in that regard. The main reason the pirate party didn’t join the Bundestag is they were largely incompetent. Infighting weakened them. Snowden gave them the perfect topic but all they did do is being reactive and saying the establishment is bad instead of developing policy ideas with they could have pushed into reality.
The main problem with establishing a new party is getting competent people together who are willing to think deeply about public policy and who don’t destroy each other through infighting.
I don’t know that much about the German system, how is the public funding allocated among the political parties? Did the Pirate Party get public funding? What about say the AfD?