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Aakaakaak:
1) The two party system is absolutely the antagonist. I fully expect to assassinate a couple protagonists.
2) Social networking and the utilization of various forms of media that nobody really utilizes properly. Politicians are just now starting to use twitter and facebook. I'd also be thinking about using old political avenues in new ways. One of the theories I've seen only slightly used in the past is exploiting political news agencies for free advertising. And, of course, it doesn't have to be completely realistic. It just has to be close to real.
3) I'd like to use a limited amount of current events. For example, the Tea Party movement would be used in part of the first book, but not specific real life people. Everyone is intended to be fictional by person.
4) Very few people who don't explicitly align themselves with one party or the other rarely succeed in government today. The concept of everyone having a more powerful voice in government instead of the black and white, yes or no system we have now is what I'm trying to sell.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Interesting.

It could work, but what will they be proposing as an alternative ? I presume you're a reasonable degree of familiar with alternative models for democracy - there's material enough for a PhD thesis is the Irish, Canadian, and British variants on parliamentary democracy alone.

Also, how familiar are you with the realities of on-the-ground political organising ?  I would recommend, if you've not come across them already, Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution series - available at the moment in two two-book volumes called Fractions and Divisions - for an example of excellent fairly recent SF that really gets down and dirty into on-the-ground political organising, in a dimension that an awful lot of SF by US writers just Does Not Get.  Particularly the first and last volumes (the series is not exactly in chronological order.)

snowbank:
The thing is, just because something sounds like a sure winner/loser doesn't mean it will be. Joss Whedon, Charlaine Harris, Laurel k Hamilton, Earl Emerson, the 3 name Louisiana guy who writes Dave Robicheaux and innumerable others had ideas that may not have been mainstream or may have just had to pay their dues to become successful.

Kelley Armstrong has been very receptive to her reader's suggestions about narrators for her online stories, although she writes the books as she pleases. Dana Stabenow (and J.K. Rowlings) are adamant about writing what and how they want to write.

Refining your ideas by discussion may be helpful to your own perspective. It would be an interesting exercise, at the very least. And maybe help educate people about how government functions.

I look forward.  ;)

Aakaakaak:
personal experience comes from several years of political blogging (which I don't do anymore), and talking with my father who used to be one of the behind the scenes guys in WA republican politics. I'll check those books out Neuro.

I'm experimenting with a few governmental ideas that wrap themselves around more around a "people first" idea, trying to home into more of a non-representative republic, while still maintaining a strong governmental structure. It's still a work in progress for the fine-tuned pieces.

Snow, thank you. I'll try and be sure to stay true to my ideas and not glean to heavily on someone else.

meh:
I'll read it.   :)


If you really want to make me giggle, make sure to include a condemnation of astroturfing somewhere in the first or second book.

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