Post by maggostopheles on Aug 25, 2013 1:19:56 GMT
Hello everyone!
As a new player and non-participant of the beta phase I've yet to witness the workings of WA's political interface, what it enables you to do and what it doesn't. Delving into politics seems like something I'd like to do some day, but as of now I have a hard time acquiring almost any quantitative information about the current state of affairs to build a serious platform to run on. Coming from real world (municipal) politics I'm used to having a few tools at my disposal to remedy this and I'd greatly appreciate if someone could elaborate on if these tools are present in the system, may be provided by it's members or if they seem just to cumbersome to implement. Many thanks in advance!
The questions:
I'd also be interested in your opinions regarding the tools and procedures I've asked about, which are not part of the system as of now; if you deem them useful or not worth the bother.
Thanks for reading!
As a new player and non-participant of the beta phase I've yet to witness the workings of WA's political interface, what it enables you to do and what it doesn't. Delving into politics seems like something I'd like to do some day, but as of now I have a hard time acquiring almost any quantitative information about the current state of affairs to build a serious platform to run on. Coming from real world (municipal) politics I'm used to having a few tools at my disposal to remedy this and I'd greatly appreciate if someone could elaborate on if these tools are present in the system, may be provided by it's members or if they seem just to cumbersome to implement. Many thanks in advance!
The questions:
- Are there meaningful budget tools? Is tax revenue displayed by type of tax and possibly even by periods of time (days, weeks)? Can spending be tracked once money is assigned to a ministry's budget?
- What about statistics, e.g. how many companies are there with how many employees?
- Are there ways to inquire information? I don't mean writing PMs but ways that force ministers or government heads to answer a request.
- What kind of institutionalized coordination between city level and country level politics is there - if any? E.g. a city resolution that has to be at least discussed on national level.
- What tools does the average citizen have at hand to acquire information from government officials? Do we plan to release (simplified?) reports and voting tolls?
- Are there any regular meetings or platforms, publicly available or not?
- Will political parties and factions have any special privileges or tools over individual officials or citizens?
I'd also be interested in your opinions regarding the tools and procedures I've asked about, which are not part of the system as of now; if you deem them useful or not worth the bother.
Thanks for reading!