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Introduction to policy formulation & propositions


This section is in preparation...

It will review methods for the development of common positions on preferable propositions to solve common problems.

The topic of the identification of good propositions is a practice that has been well developed in some US states such as California. In the United Kingdom there are some specific requirements to enable the constituents introduce this process. These will be elaborated here. The most important issue is to political-party-proof the forums handling these questions in order to arrive at balanced propositions which support majority needs.

The process of coming up with suitable mutually acceptable proposals to resolve common issues can become complicated and unsatisfactory when those coordinating work groups have a specific agenda to not follow what the group comes up with but rather to ensure certain types of solution are avoided and others targeted. Such "moderators" are quite often operarating in the interests of a faction with an interest in specific types of solution.

The process of decision analysis can introduce due diligence procedures which, if followed, can identify the types and quality of information required to design solutions based on an understanding of the causes of gaps (constraints) and an appreciation of the critical cause-and-effect relationships that identify the main determinants of a successful solution.

Therefore one of the main challenges is to identify and review the quality of needed information ensuring that critical information is not overlooked and that all information collected and studied is representative of the phenomena and processes of interest.

Quite often, information deemed to be of importance, does not exist. Effective decision analysis can identify such information and therefore inform groups working on the development of propositions that such information needs to be collected and assessed before finalizing the proposition design. This can take additional time, but always, the time and resource costs of collecting addtitional information invariably results in significant savings or increased effectiveness of the resulting proposition. Rushing to conclusions seldom helps. The normal system of 5 year parliamentary in the context of the behaviour of political parties usually sees a 2 year assessment of the lie of the land, two years frenetic activity and a year prepating for the next election.

Without political parties, the process of proposition formulation would tend to be freer from the inteference from ideological partizan extremes and would tend to roll towards mutually acceptable results in a shorter period. On the other hand, this frerdom also establishes a platform for medium and long term planning which can be deliver sustained resulte because it is more likely to avoid the absurd habit of parties cancelling acts and projects initiated by the opposing party when in government.



It is time for a politics without parties!!