New Zealand needs government with incentives to think beyond the next election.
This is the case for building those incentives.
The Problem
New Zealand's Parliament, like many other countries, has three structural problems that no change of government fixes:
policy reversals happen every 3 year electoral cycle - aka "policy zigzag",
no mechanism for engaging with long-range risk before it becomes a crisis - "short-term blinkers', and
no formal structure for inter-party cooperation on those problems that outlast any single election cycle - "the cooperation gap".
These three are not failures of political will. They are actual design characteristics of a system built for a different era.
The Fix
The fixes we are proposing are fully compatible with democratic government:
better for New Zealanders,
better for voters, and
surprisingly better for politicians too.
With the right incentive and information structures at parliament, the vast majority of politicians will do the right thing. Contact us for more information, and you can check back periodically to see more information on this website.
The Precedents
Have changes of this general scale and reach ever been debated, designed and implemented before? Yes indeed. Democracy, is a work in progress. Click below to go to the Precents page: