Politics of Khusqaikama

Khusqaian politics are dominated by an idea, 'Caxamiśrakĭaŭ'. The core of this idea, first formulated by Caxamiśra in the 11th century, is that the severity of a measure/policy must be proportional to the seriousness of the problem it is supposed to solve, the importance of a solution, and the certainty that this measure/policy leads to a solution. In practice this results in extreme carefulness (or 'prudence') in Khusqaian politics: every proposal is endlessly researched, weighed, and debated, and because of this, it can take very, very long before a proposal becomes law.

links:

• Government and Politics of Khusqaikama: introduction
• Government of Khusqaikama
• Political Parties of Khusqaikama / Party leaders of Khusqaikama
• Elections in Khusqaikama
• 1962 reforms
• Caxamiśrakĭaŭ / Iitaŋ Code

political landscape

If two left-right dimensions are distinguished, one related to economic policies, the other related to liberties, cultural values, and so forth, then the Khusqaian political parties can be classified as follows:

	economic left		center		economic right
cultural left	Särkaĭ				WHP
		DSP
center				PPP
	CPKR	MPP	Alliance P.	regional parties	NLP
cultural right		Prosperity P.	KPP

'Cultural left' favors civil liberties and is culturally progressive / liberal; 'cultural right' is culturally conservative. 'Economic left' favors government policies to redistribute wealth; 'economic right' favors economic freedom. It should be noted that Khusqaian Buddhist ethics strongly favors sharing wealth, which may be the main reason for the relative strength of economically leftist parties.

possible coalitions

Governments, and thus government coalitions, are formed by the upper house, which because of the way it is elected is extremely stable. Partly because of that, there are few big changes in the government of Khusqaikama, with the 2010-2012 DSP/CPKR/Särkaĭ/Prosperity government as the sole exception. With regards to coalition formation, political parties can be divided into 4 groups:

• left bloc: DSP, Särkaĭ, CPKR;
• center bloc: MPP, PPP, Prosperity P.;
• right bloc: NLP;
• others: KPP, Alliance P., WHP, regional parties.

Note that the right-left division here is not based on party policies, but on which parties would be willing to enter into a coalition with each other. Possible coalitions are either left plus center or right plus center. The left bloc is larger than the right bloc, so it is primarily the size of the center bloc that determines whether a right-plus-center coalition is possible. Parties in the 'other' group have never been considered for a coalition. The KPP will most likely move to the right bloc if there is a chance to form a right-plus-center government if that party is included. The (pro-Russian) Alliance Party and (organized crime-related) WHP will never be considered for a coalition for political reasons. Regional parties, finally, are unlikely coalition candidates because their regionalist agendas clash with aims of central government (and may provoke strong negative reactions in other regions).

The following graph shows the number of upper house seats per group of parties (the three 'blocs' and 'other') from 1994 (the first completely freely elected upper house) until 2012:

Part of the decline of the center can be explained by the split up of the old (centrist) Liberal Party into separate left-wing and right-wing liberal (Särkaĭ and NLP). Partly it is also caused by disappointment in the MPP that dominated Khusqaian politics since the democratization in 1991.