Expert Government is new form of government.
It was devised because the forms of government in use are evidently not effective, although effectiveness should be the main objective of government.
Problems with government are often reported, diverse in nature, and seem to have important elements of mismanagement. So ineffective government seems to be systemic and based in the fundamentals of its design.
Civilisation continually increases in complexity, so government must increase in complexity to manage it. Eventually complexity becomes so significant that the most effective form of government must be based on the best complexity management pattern available. That pattern is a system of many self-organising independent specialisms employing many collaborating specialists, or idealy experts, all with equal authority limited to their specialism. The pattern has a range of overriding objectives and collaborative mechanisms that modulate the specialisms toward common goals.
A very important corollary of the main design principle is that this form of government does not have an authority hierarchy. This helps reduce corruption but requires that inter-discipline especialists and groups exist to ensure the oversight function found in hierarchical authority systems still exists.
The name Expert Government reflects an aspiration to employ skilful specialists in government. It could also accurately be called Specialism Government to reflect the most important design principle of devolving authority to those with the best understanding.
The principal objective of Expert Government is to improve the effectiveness of government. It also aims to reduce corruption and ensure government is adaptable to changing needs, circumstances, and understanding.
The principal objective for a form of government must be to achieve effective governance. In a representative democracy ‘the vote’ is the main means to achieve that objective. From the many governance issues we currently have it is evident that representative democracy is not delivering effective governance. We need a new means to obtain effective government.
Democracy has improved the lives of ordinary people by progressing away from authoritarianism, but it needs further improvement. A continuous stream of problems highlight ineffective government as the main problem with democracy. As the world becomes increasingly sophisticated, so it becomes more complex. The old forms of government developed for a simpler world are becoming progressively less appropriate. They will fail increasingly often, and the consequences of those failures will become worse.
The three main problems with any government are ineffectiveness, corruption, and inadaptability.
These problems are not simply due to poor politicians and policies, they have deeper causes:
Expert Government uses three techniques to minimise these three problems:
All government positions are advertised. The most suitable applicants are appointed.
A citizen can only take a position in government once and for a limited term. This allows more citizens the opportunity to enter government and reduces the opportunity for corruption.
Three features of how citizens are employed in government advance the principal concept of democracy:
A problem free transition is essential. In a representative democracy with political parties two steps are needed:
UK politicians influence government policy based a number of concerns, particularly issues local to their voters.
Specialists are not constrained by narrow concerns, and by definition have a deeper understanding to make better informed decisions.
The UK's old form of government is increasingly inappropriate and will not be our last.
The sooner the UK embraces the need for the change to Expert Government, the sooner our future will improve.
It is time for a rational form of government designed to accommodate advancing civilisation. Please endorse Expert Government.