Proposal: Political Influence
Fails 1-7. — Quirck
Adminned at 26 Jan 2013 22:30:30 UTC
Add a new rule to the ruleset entitled, “Political Influence”:
Each Honourable Member has a score called Influence, which is tracked in the GNDT, can be any whole number between 1 and 3, and defaults to 3.
Amend the rule, “Parties” to read:
Each Honourable Member may belong to a Party; this is tracked as a word in the GNDT in the column “Partyâ€, or “-†if the Honorable Member belongs to no Party. A Party’s Size is equal to the number of Honourable Members who belong to that Party, and a Party is “larger†than another if it has a greater Size. A Party’s Influence is equal to the total amount of Influence of all of the Honourable members in that party.
At any given time, one or more Parties may be “in Powerâ€, as follows:-
If one Party has more Influence than all other Parties, and an Influence greater than (0.5T+1) where T = Total Influence of all parties, then it alone is in Power.
Otherwise, if two Parties have more Influence than all other Parties, and their combined Influence is greater than (0.5T+1) where T = Total Influence of all parties, then both of those Parties is in Power.
Otherwise, no Party is in Power.
As a weekly action, an Honourable Member may change the Party they belong to to either “Communistâ€, “Socialistâ€, “Greenâ€, “Liberalâ€, “Religiousâ€, “Conservative†or “Extremistâ€.
I thought influence might be a good idea once we start voting on things, those with more influence would get more votes, this means that a party with small number of members could be just as effective as a party with a larger number of members.
nqeron:
And if “Party Time” does not pass? It would probably be better to write this as:
“If a rule Parties does not exist, enact it, otherwise amend it to read ... “.
I’m still unsure as to whether I like this. I know it’s similar to the concept of Voting Power that I was suggesting earlier, but the way it has an affect on ‘in power’ I’m not so sure I like - especially as this would already be a natural artifact with a group of people in the same party.