Government Ideas: Two Cabinets
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by Mr Crumpets
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Every Country President election we see candidates provide their cabinet, outlining who will be a minister, who will be a deputy and who will be an adviser.
Each election throws up choice of prospective leaders with an experienced cabinet, a semi-experienced cabinet, or one filled with newer players and the promise of change.
However, they all (in the end) suffer from burn out.
This is not the fault of the cabinet members. A variety of reasons come into play, such as...
1. Workload (being on IRC, forums, etc.... for supplies and enquires)
2. The Fun of being in Government wears off (especially for newbies)
3. Real Life events
So how do we overcome this?
I don't think there is one foolproof way, but there's an idea I think we could try next term, over the Christmas-New Year break.
Two cabinets. Actually one normal cabinet, but split into two.
Instead of having a Minister with their Deputy, we have co-Ministers where they will each take responsibility for 7 days.
The purpose of this is to give everyone a break. In 90% of Governments in this eNation, we've seen them get off to great starts, but after a week or some, RL gets in the way or cabinet members go AWOL.
Just this term, despite many very informative articles from the CP, dCP and DoD, the Department of Information themselves have gone very quiet (especially during the PP elections when there was a threat of PTOs).
A two cabinet situation (lead by the same Country President) would have seen the first Minister of Information be given a break after seven days, thus to keep him fresh (he'd return to the post seven days later) and keep cabinet motivated.
A classic example of 'short stint' cabinets working well was the H.Nelson interim Government of around 1-2 years ago. This was when DocterDry2 was impeached the first time around.
Because the H.Nelson team would only be in charge for ten days before the next election, that allowed cabinet members to give their all, knowing they wouldn't have to do a full month's work.
This proved to be a success, especially in terms of communicating with the eAustralian public.
Worth noting, much of the cabinet stayed on when Majester won the election. However, cabinet started stalling a week after that, after the grind of doing the job kicked in.
This Christmas-New Year's holiday (specially with a number of people taking a break) gives us the perfect oppourtunity to experiment with the 'Two cabinets' idea.
If it doesn't work, so what, it was only term and at least we gave it a try.
Mr Crumpets.
Every Country President election we see candidates provide their cabinet, outlining who will be a minister, who will be a deputy and who will be an adviser.
Each election throws up choice of prospective leaders with an experienced cabinet, a semi-experienced cabinet, or one filled with newer players and the promise of change.
However, they all (in the end) suffer from burn out.
This is not the fault of the cabinet members. A variety of reasons come into play, such as...
1. Workload (being on IRC, forums, etc.... for supplies and enquires)
2. The Fun of being in Government wears off (especially for newbies)
3. Real Life events
So how do we overcome this?
I don't think there is one foolproof way, but there's an idea I think we could try next term, over the Christmas-New Year break.
Two cabinets. Actually one normal cabinet, but split into two.
Instead of having a Minister with their Deputy, we have co-Ministers where they will each take responsibility for 7 days.
The purpose of this is to give everyone a break. In 90% of Governments in this eNation, we've seen them get off to great starts, but after a week or some, RL gets in the way or cabinet members go AWOL.
Just this term, despite many very informative articles from the CP, dCP and DoD, the Department of Information themselves have gone very quiet (especially during the PP elections when there was a threat of PTOs).
A two cabinet situation (lead by the same Country President) would have seen the first Minister of Information be given a break after seven days, thus to keep him fresh (he'd return to the post seven days later) and keep cabinet motivated.
A classic example of 'short stint' cabinets working well was the H.Nelson interim Government of around 1-2 years ago. This was when DocterDry2 was impeached the first time around.
Because the H.Nelson team would only be in charge for ten days before the next election, that allowed cabinet members to give their all, knowing they wouldn't have to do a full month's work.
This proved to be a success, especially in terms of communicating with the eAustralian public.
Worth noting, much of the cabinet stayed on when Majester won the election. However, cabinet started stalling a week after that, after the grind of doing the job kicked in.
This Christmas-New Year's holiday (specially with a number of people taking a break) gives us the perfect oppourtunity to experiment with the 'Two cabinets' idea.
If it doesn't work, so what, it was only term and at least we gave it a try.
Mr Crumpets.
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wow... find a new dealer or something cause this is just... well.. special 😉
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This was planned CH. Good to see the idea is supported.
Thanks for the support TJ.
The problem I always see is that you never have 100% of cabinet all the time across 30/31 days.
By splitting it up into shorter bursts, it might make it easier for people.
In ideal circumstances it still doesn't occur mate. The holiday season will prove different yet again. After the Senate elections we'll get some folks together for a chat and go through some ideas.