Consider the following:
-The government is broken down into a number of tiered councils. The tiers consist of a group in charge of geographic locations of increasing size (e.g. tier 1 is local area council, tier 2 is town council or section of city council, etc), such that any given person is governed by exactly one tier 1 council, exactly one tier 2 council, etc.
-Each council has a set of responsibilities that they are in charge of, with decision within the council made by simple majority
-Each council has at least one council directly below it.
-Every few years (provisionally 4), elections are held.
--To apply for a council position you must hold a position on a council one tier below the one you are applying for. To apply for the lowest tier council, you must be from the relevant local area for that lowest tier.
--If one is already on a council, they can also choose whether or not they want to run for their current council position. This can be done as well as running for a higher council position (in case one's attempt at a higher position fails)
--Once everybody decides whether or not they are running, everybody that is governed by the position they are running for gets a list of all the people running. This happens for each council. So each person would get a list of tier 1 candidates, a list of tier 2 candidates, etc
--Each person would be able to approve or deny each person on each list. If a candidate's application is denied by more than a quarter of people, their application is stopped and they do not proceed to the next steps.
--Next, each surviving candidate is given a pseudonym. They will write their manifestos and issue statements and respond to questions using their pseudonym. Revealing the pseudonym will be highly illegal. Anything produced under the pseudonym will be done so electronically and with no links to the candidate's actual identity.
--Each person gets a list of the manifestos of all the people running for each tier, and gets a single transferrable vote for each tier. So each person ranks their tier 1 candidates in order, then their tier 2 candidates in order, etc.
--Starting with the highest ranked tier and descending by tier rank, the nine most popular candidates who are not part of a higher tier are placed into each council.
Advantages:
-An individual gets to choose how they are governed at multiple levels
-Since individuals present themselves under pseudonyms, this prevents racism/sexism/other from penalizing candidates unfairly
-Since individuals keep their identities secret for the policy debate, it reduces the need for an individual to be in a party to succeed
-The initial approval and tiered system means that people aren't flooded with thousands of crazy people to be approved
-The tiered system means that all the candidates for higher position have years worth of experience