We couldn’t agree more: Politicians are in generally only up for (hard) evaluation in elections every 4-8 years. But what about feedback in the meantime? New Political Review offers Americans a new service to rate and rank their politicians ‘on the fly’.


Acknowledging that political disagreements stem form differences in perfectly legitimate basic value sets, this is at least a way to tell politicians if they come across as good public servants whatever their political standpoint. Expect more of this to come. Even if the default four values - honor, integrity, dignity and character - might not represent the actual outlook of all the senators, this is a good, simple start to take the lived values of public agents into the public. Next step is to either make the politicians state their basic values or ask the public WHICH values they perceive the agent as pursuing (keep an eye on Actics.com for this).

And I can’t help adding, that the dynamic aspect highlighted by New Political Review is fully analog to companies with annual customer satisfaction questionnaires or formal audits. Why not open a 24/7 channel for stakeholders to tell you about your performance right when they have an opinion to get relevant and timely feedback – and feedback at all?

Thanks to Daniel for the tip.