User talk:Paul Nollen

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Joe I 20:39, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pol. parties in Belgium

Dag,

Je postte een berichtje op mijn talkpage.

- "After installing a 5% threshold by the larger parties supported by the Greens" heb ik veranderd in "After the installation of a 5% electoral threshold" omdat de verwijzing naar de grotere partijen POV is. De beslissing over de kiesdrempel is genomen door het parlement. Daarenboven heeft het geen belang in dit artikel en deze paragraaf. De kartels worden aangegaan omwille van de kiesdrempel, en of die nu door de grotere partijen is ingesteld of niet, heeft de beslissing over de kartels niet beïnvloed. Daarenboven, een beslissing in het parlement zal altijd moeten gedragen worden door meerdere grotere partijen, anders krijg je nooit een meerderheid.

Dat een aantal mensen daarin een doelbewuste zet van de grotere partijen zien kan ik geloven. Groen! (toch niet meteen een grote partij) heeft ingestemd met de kiesdrempel omwille van de democratische merites van het voorstel. Je kan nu eenmaal een maatschappij beter besturen met een stabiel parlement.

- "Corporate funding of political parties was made illegal before" : in het tweede deel van de eerste zin hebben we het al over funding. Een verdere uitweiding over funding zou daar thuishoren. Hier staat het niet op zijn plaats. Maar ik ben het met je eens dat het verbod op corporate funding opnieuw in het artikel hoort.

- "thus making the only possible means of political work outside the existing parties by personal funding" : heb ik er uit gehaald omdat het een kromme, vrijwel onverstaanbare zin is, en ook fout inhoudelijk : je kan ook aan politiek werk doen zonder in het parlement te zitten, of zonder fondsenwerving. Het is overigens een verdere uitbreiding op het funding-thema.

Ik heb inmiddels de tekst van het artikel licht gewijzigd. Wat denk je ?

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Direct Democracy Party

I removed the link you added in direct democracy that points to the "Direct Democracy Party" of California. I can't find any secondary sources that discuss the party, nor can I find any other websites that link to it. --Explodicle (T/C) 17:48, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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