Congressional Plan as proposed by Kevin Prager
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Subject: Two plans for representation
Date Sent: Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:19
From: Prager Kevin <prager.kevin@hq.nato.int>
I have been advocating this plan for several years. It is a simple, software-driven (i.e. Excel) solution which would mimic the US Congress'
bi-cameral system – a solution that would instantly and separately calculate both equal (fair) votes and fully proportional votes from all
CCs – in which a "win" would require 50+% in both Fair and Proportional vote tallies.
Who would get what out of such a plan?
- Big countries would get a major step towards proportionality, and be assured that even a large coalition of tiny countries could never
force through decisions without big-country buy-in - Small countries would be offered protection against pure proportionality – more than half of DPCA members would need to be
convinced to pass something, which seems a reasonable minimum to me. - The DNC would get an unassailably fair AND proportional system. Who could possibly argue with the system set up by the founding fathers?
- The system is future-proofed. It would grow with the organization.
It still seems to me like an idea that could be successfully sold to both the DNC and the DPCA membership (since at least 2 moderates from
Canada and Norway independently proposed similar Congressional-style plans).
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