Performance management in politics

I had been thinking that instead of spilling bullshit here i should try and put up some serious posts also. I still dont know if i will be able to do that. But I will try to raise at least one serious topic from now on.

So while we were discussing our appraisal process I thought that an appraisal process is actually an essential element to extract some performances out of most of the individuals. If an individual is spending a lot of time and effort, he/she needs some incentives to put up an effort. That incentive is provided by appraisal process. An appraisal process provides that incentive either in terms of tangible benefits such as monetary gains, promotions etc or in term of intangibles such as "a stick up your arse" if you dont perform. So if a process is being performed without an efficient appraisal support there is a lot of probability that it will be driven to achieve selfish/personal benefits of the individuals involved rather than the goals that were to be achieved by setting up that process. The bottom line is efficient appraisal process is the one which helps in realising goals of underlying processes.

The reason I am mentioning such obvious facts is that I realise we in a democratic system do not have an efficient appraisal process for elected individual, that is assuming if we have an appraisal process in place at all. My logic then says that this system is going to be as it is as I do not see any incentives from the point of view of people who will have to introduce this appraisal process for introducing it at all.

Then I think the reason for politics being politics is because they do not have an efficient appraisal process. If we introduce an efficient performance management system then it would not be politics anymore then it will become an efficient result driven syndicate.