Thanks for listing the posts topic wise. Many times I started reading the posts from the beginning but it is difficult to complete 262 posts. This list would be helpful to select a topic of interest. Without doubt you are great public educators.
There is one advantage of One-Nation-One-Election. I wrote this in the OpenTakshashila. Reiterating that here : (please let me know if my point is not clear)
One advantage of ONOE is 'bitter pill digestion' time.
Let us assume there are some measures which are difficult for the public in the short term but deliver results within 4-5 years. Let us assume these measures are good for the nation in the long term, and hence are necessary. Let us call these measures bitter-pills for the sake of this discussion.
With a guarantee of 5 years in hand, a government can administer those bitter pills and still claim credit in the next election cycle because the good results will be visible by that time. If there are overlapping elections (Lok sabha/state) all the time, then the only way to administer those bitter pills will be for a political party to sacrifice its electoral interests in the intermediate elections. Putting such electoral/political costs on well-designed bitter-pills is counterproductive. The current state of election-always-cycle can be preventing many such beneficial bitter pills getting implemented ever.
ONOE can solve the bitter-pill-digestion-time problem.
Thanks for listing the posts topic wise. Many times I started reading the posts from the beginning but it is difficult to complete 262 posts. This list would be helpful to select a topic of interest. Without doubt you are great public educators.
Thanks for encouraging us.
There is one advantage of One-Nation-One-Election. I wrote this in the OpenTakshashila. Reiterating that here : (please let me know if my point is not clear)
One advantage of ONOE is 'bitter pill digestion' time.
Let us assume there are some measures which are difficult for the public in the short term but deliver results within 4-5 years. Let us assume these measures are good for the nation in the long term, and hence are necessary. Let us call these measures bitter-pills for the sake of this discussion.
With a guarantee of 5 years in hand, a government can administer those bitter pills and still claim credit in the next election cycle because the good results will be visible by that time. If there are overlapping elections (Lok sabha/state) all the time, then the only way to administer those bitter pills will be for a political party to sacrifice its electoral interests in the intermediate elections. Putting such electoral/political costs on well-designed bitter-pills is counterproductive. The current state of election-always-cycle can be preventing many such beneficial bitter pills getting implemented ever.
ONOE can solve the bitter-pill-digestion-time problem.