On 04/11/18 01:41, Paul Allen wrote:
On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 3:29 AM Allan Mustard <al...@mustard.net
<mailto:al...@mustard.net>> wrote:
Hmmm. Reaching back to my bachelor's degree in political science,
Parliament is also a government body, the legislative branch of
the government, so even a member of the opposition is part of
"government" in its broadest sense. I would tag it
office=government, government=parliamentarian or something
similar. Executive, legislative, judicial are all "government".
There's a can of annelids here, just waiting to be opened.
Over here in the UK, I have an MP (Member of Parliament) representing
me in the UK national
government. There's also the House of Lords (upper chamber), some
members of which might
have unofficial offices outside of parliament buildings where they can
be contacted, but a quick
search shows no evidence of such. Since I live in Wales, I also have
an AM (Assembly Member)
of the National Assembly of Wales. And, for a few more months, I have
an MEP (Member of the
European Parliament). Scotland and Northern Ireland have devolved
governments like Wales
(but different names for their assemblies and members) but England
does not (don't get me
started on the West Lothian question).
Other member countries of the European Union will have MEPs in
addition to representatives of
their own national governments and some may have (like the UK)
devolved assemblies in
addition. The US has state and federal government. Oh, and don't
forget that technically, the US
has three branches of government so we have to decide if we absorb the
judiciary into this
(does our definition of government differ from that of the US
Constitution).
It's going to take some careful thought, and many postings here, to
come up with a scheme
with sensible terminology that works for all those situations.
And those examples are only the ones 'we' are aware of. I'd like some
thoughts from elsewhere.
To me these are all 'politicians' or at least serve a political role
when acting (I hope) on our behalf to represent 'us'.
Don't think every situation would be happy with 'parliamentarians'.
I am not going to try and distinguish between the various levels - upper
and lower houses, federal, state, local, unions etc...
That could go in the description, far too many variables around the
world for a single system I think.
Lets get the first level of tagging done before contemplating a more
complex area?
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