tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1459705910272523592.post4598525328234135679..comments2024-02-18T14:05:42.728+02:00Comments on Peripheral Vision: Political Parties as Parasitesnomadronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11996785326616523308noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1459705910272523592.post-64033356629221626982014-02-16T09:39:26.764+02:002014-02-16T09:39:26.764+02:00Thank, Ivan for these thoughtful comments. You are...Thank, Ivan for these thoughtful comments. You are right that my first typology was developed in - and related to (local) - conditions of the 1980s, It failed to mention financial inducement (Oh innocent days!) although the Construction industry certainly was pretty active then procuring favours. at a local level.<br />It would indeed be interesting to update the typology - and for various countries - in the way you suggest.....<br />And you are being very modest in not mentioning your own website which is collecting papers on modern aspects of the nomenklatura - at http://www.zaedno.mobi/Zaedno/Foreign_Reports_on_Nomenklaturocracy.html<br />Success with that!nomadronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11996785326616523308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1459705910272523592.post-81166868561097611152014-02-15T21:48:51.244+02:002014-02-15T21:48:51.244+02:00I like your approach with the diagram, to assess t...I like your approach with the diagram, to assess the efficiency – or just political value, i.e. his/her worth for the given electorate – of the politicians. It is reminiscent of the method we use in the industry to monitor Cost of Quality, in the overal domain of Quality Management. <br /><br />However, I believe that your (standard) procedure is applicable to individuals who were in politics a quarter of a century ago: we could easily evaluate their work and grade them and compile a list with ranking everyone. Today these people are all but 1-2% gone; for the majority of the present-day politicians we will need other qualifiers: e.g. political correctness vis-à-vis Brussels, greed, career-mindedness, level of propensity to corruption, level of criminal involvement. These are the four most prominant in case we would keep the quadrant type of diagram, and apply it to the majority only; if we need to include the minority that is still out there and believes in values other than money-making, then we could stack all the parameters in a radar-type diagram, as per the industrial method mentioned above.<br /><br />It may be an interesting exercise to do that, by asking a few people to give grades of all these criteria for a group of politicians, and afterwards to publish the profiles thus created. Not that it would be a great surprise to many, but it will be the first time – at least in my recollection – to have quanified the public perception (and possibly knowledge) about their “abilities” and “qualities.” We know from the results of 25 years of “democracy” that leadership is a parameter of wishful thinking, certainly in today’s Bulgaria... And, by extension, the estimate for most foreign leaders would be just about the same: I reckon this observation has prompted you thinking about a procedure for measuring it, hasn’t it?<br />Ivan Daraktchievhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05756014549066056094noreply@blogger.com