After our discussion relatively recently about political systems that are most advantageous, I have been wondering if we can explore this issue scientifically. How does one go about testing a political hypothesis without implementing it on a population? Can we currently accurately simulate the actions of a population on computer so that we can apply various political systems to find which is most advantageous to certain populations?
What about transitional governments? The characteristics of certain populations may not be conducive of better government immediately, and may require transitional political systems that lead in to better political systems.
I currently favour Libertarianism as an ideal in it's absolute form, perhaps not realistically attainable but approached nonetheless. Don and others are right to assert that not all people are capable of being sufficiently self-reliant in such a free system of government. I think that human progress into a possible posthuman future will give many more individuals the capacity to become more self-reliant. I see libertarianism as a political system that would least interfere with the volitional actions of it's population.
With that said though, I think politics could benefit from scientific rigor.