Expert Government Design

One of the most important elements of the design of a system of government is the integrity of the system itself. So here we examine how the system maintains its integrity.

System Integrity

Maintaining system integrity is controlled by system rules and committee rules. Both classes of rule should detail procedure, intent, and expected outcome.

System rules protect the integrity of the system as a whole, requiring significant broad based support to modify them.
They prevent changes that would weaken the central principles of adaptability, avoidance of corruption, excellence of the people appointed to government roles, equal opportunity, citizen influence.
Example subjects for system rules:

A committee should be aware of the full range of possibilities before deliberating on policies.
Policies should not be extreme, except where they can be demonstrated to be a proportionate response to extreme situations.
No committee can change its rules without consensus approval from other committees that the proposed change conforms to the system rules.
A specified minimum percentage of committee members must be present, or their proxies, for a committee to be allowed to take votes on policy.
Committees must be able to demonstrate they operate at an appropriate frequency to address their workload.
Each committee member must be able to demonstrate adequate contribution.

Committee rules are created and changed by individual committees, but reported to monitoring committees. They protect significant procedural functioning of the committee.