Interesting ideas on policy review panels. I read Gastil and Sunstien in relation to your premise. Possibly implementation might need to be by lottery yes but busy middle class people like my teacher daughter or
architect daughter with two busy kids might have to have something like the jury duty summons or even national guard summons to even be enticed them to participate in that civic duty, compensation or no. To get a cross section of ages, educational backgrounds, and economic levels is even harder. I'd love to see the change occur but it took 250 years to get this flawed system.
I agree Holly, it might be hard to get folks with full-time jobs to participate, especially if they have children. It would have to be ingrained in our collective psyche as national service. But that’s possible.
It’s good to finally see some of the nuts and bolts, Terry. But please, as much as possible, provide real examples of these panels in action for us to understand how this could work. Thanks!
Exactly because a significant number of people will likely decline to serve on bodies that meet for extended terms of office, is the reason for two key things. Firstly, there should be stratified sampling to improve (though not perfectly) the diversity of the body to match the population. And secondly, that none of their product is adopted without approval of a short duration Policy Jury, which would have quasi-mandatory service, like current court juries. Only statistically accurately representative Policy Juries (that might serve for a week or two) can adopt laws after hearing the pro and con arguments. This is the topic of the next post.
Bob, Yes no amount of compensation would work with my daughters although they are very civic minded. What your left with is the unemployed, or retired persons which gives you a bias' because of their demographics. Perhaps the military draft like Israel has for all men and women to serve right out of high school or college sans children or careers.
Interesting ideas on policy review panels. I read Gastil and Sunstien in relation to your premise. Possibly implementation might need to be by lottery yes but busy middle class people like my teacher daughter or
architect daughter with two busy kids might have to have something like the jury duty summons or even national guard summons to even be enticed them to participate in that civic duty, compensation or no. To get a cross section of ages, educational backgrounds, and economic levels is even harder. I'd love to see the change occur but it took 250 years to get this flawed system.
Holly
I agree Holly, it might be hard to get folks with full-time jobs to participate, especially if they have children. It would have to be ingrained in our collective psyche as national service. But that’s possible.
It’s good to finally see some of the nuts and bolts, Terry. But please, as much as possible, provide real examples of these panels in action for us to understand how this could work. Thanks!
Exactly because a significant number of people will likely decline to serve on bodies that meet for extended terms of office, is the reason for two key things. Firstly, there should be stratified sampling to improve (though not perfectly) the diversity of the body to match the population. And secondly, that none of their product is adopted without approval of a short duration Policy Jury, which would have quasi-mandatory service, like current court juries. Only statistically accurately representative Policy Juries (that might serve for a week or two) can adopt laws after hearing the pro and con arguments. This is the topic of the next post.
Bob, Yes no amount of compensation would work with my daughters although they are very civic minded. What your left with is the unemployed, or retired persons which gives you a bias' because of their demographics. Perhaps the military draft like Israel has for all men and women to serve right out of high school or college sans children or careers.