Particracy Forum

Name of the Law/Policy: Regulation of tobacco advertising (if the sale of tobacco is legal)
Law/Policy Catagory: Health

Options:
1) Advertising by tobacco companies is legal and unregulated.
2) Advertising by tobacco companies is restricted (eg. they cannot sponsor sporting events or cannot advertise on television).
3) Advertising by tobacco companies is banned.
4) Advertising by tobacco companies is banned, and cigarette packets must carry labels such as 'smoking kills' or 'quit now'.

Effects:
1) Decrease in gov. responsibilities, decrease in regulation.
2) Small increase in gov. responsibilities, small increase in regulation.
3) Increase in gov. responsibilities, increase in regulation.
4) Increase in gov. responsbilities, significant increase in regulation.

Name of the Law/Policy: Government policy on nuclear testing
Law/Policy Category: Science/Military

Options:
1) All forms of nuclear testing are allowed.
2) Only underground nuclear testing is allowed.
3) Nuclear testing is allowed only if an actual nuclear detonation does not occur.
4) Nuclear testing of all forms is never allowed.

Effects:
1) Increase in militarism, decrease in environmentalism
2) Small increase in environmentalism
3) Increase in pacifism, small increase in environmentalism
4) Major increase in pacifism, small increase in environmentalism

Name of the Law/Policy: Legality of judicial physical punishment
Law/Policy Catagory: Justice

Options:
1) All forms of physical punishment are illegal.
2) Judicial corporal punishment (eg. caning or flogging) is legal.
3) All forms of physical punishment, including judicial corporal punishment and mutilation, are legal.

Effects:
1) Increase in civil liberties.
2) Decrease in civil liberties.
3) Major decrease in civil liberties.

Name of the Law/Policy: Public executions (if death penalty is legal)
Law/Policy Catagory: Justice

Options:
1) Executions are always carried out in private; only necessary personnel are allowed to be present.
2) Executions are always carried out in private; however, family members, spiritual advisors etc. are allowed to be present.
3) Executions are always carried out in private; however, family members, spiritual advisors etc. and media representatives are allowed to be present.
4) Executions may be carried out in public and/or broadcast on television.
5) Executions are always carried out in public and/or broadcast on television.

Effects:
1) No effect.
2) No effect.
3) Slight decrease in civil liberties.
4) Major decrease in civil liberties.
5) Very major decrease in civil liberties.

Name of the Law/Policy: Power of sub-national entities to enter into international relations
Law/Policy Category: Foreign Policy

Options:
1) Sub-national entities cannot enter into international relations.
2) Sub-national entities must gain the approval of the national government prior to entering into international relations.
3) Sub-national entities can enter into international relations as if they are sovereign states.

Effects:
1) Slight increase in centralisation.
2) No effect.
3) Major increase in devolution.

Afrocentric wrote:Name of the Law/Policy: Collective bargaining for public employees
Law/Policy Catagory: Economics

Options:

1. Public sector employees have the right to collectively bargain (Default)
2. Public sector employees may not engage in collective bargaining
3. Local governments decide whether to allow collective bargaining for public sector employees

Effects:

1. Increase in market regulations
2. Decrease in market regulation
3. Slight increase in devolution, small increase in market regulation

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I'm reviving this proposal from treepost1974.

Name of the Law/Policy: Legal drinking age
Law/Policy Category: Health

Options:
10 - 24

Effects:
n/a

Name of the Law/Policy: Minimum driving age
Law/Policy Category: Unsorted

Options:
15 - 24

Effects:
n/a

Name of the Law/Policy: Age of consent
Law/Policy Category: Health

Options:
12 - 20

Effects:
n/a