[Campaigns-l] interesting quiz for political party selection

[Janet Hawtin]

On 12/1/06, Brian Reilly <allthecoolnameshavegone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Rob, I'm going to start a topic in the forums about Nationalism later today
> or tomorrow, specifically its usefulness in forming people into a society. I
> don't want to take this mail thread off-topic.
>
> As for the usefulness of quizzes like this, I think something better is
> required to use the internet to engage people in the political process.
> Something like ....a wiki. Interactive, information rich, and more
> sophisticated than a simple quiz. Yes or No answers aren't good enough.

Yes or no answers are what elections ask of us.
Think of the quiz as a series of questions that walk a visitor through
some of the issues debated on the wiki. If they dont have a response
and they want to look at the issue as described in the wiki then
follow a link from the quiz question. Perhaps they want to add to the
wiki because they do know what they want to answer but we havent
thought of it that way yet.
It might be a way to get people to interact with a range of ideas and
to have a voting response based on those choices, then look at what
the party theyve chosen says about itself. Its a way to embed the
voting choice in relevant information.?

I'm wondering if we can include a standard way on each wiki issue for
branching into international and individual national components? It
would be good to have an international or general starting page and
then branch to national instances of the issues?

Janet
International as well as specifically US components of issues.