Hello Kevin,
On Sep 9, 2005, at 00:29, Kevin Venzke wrote:
But I'm also not very worried since the real (stronger, meaningful)
reasons for 2-party domination are elsewhere, not in Condorcet or
other
slightly big party favouring rules (e.g. d'Hondt method).
I'm confused.
I'm sorry for giving the wrong impression. I think I agree with your
view 100%. My response was originally to Warren Smith's strong opinions
that Condorcet methods lead to 2-party domination, and I just wanted to
show that even if this kind of features can be found in Condorcet
methods, they can be identified in others to, like in range voting. I
thus agree that such tendencies may exist, but I certainly feel that
they are not significant. The reasons that make or maintain 2-party
dominance are elsewhere (one member districts etc.). (In my response to
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax I had also some other observations about 2-party
dominance.)
You say that even approval-style voting could move us
towards two-party domination, but that this doesn't worry you because
we have real, stronger, meaningful reasons elsewhere...?
If I were you, I wouldn't be very worried, either. I would feel forced
to give up on this issue.
I don't have any strong reasons hidden anywhere (on Approval style
range voting or Condorcet). I just meant that two party countries have
other stronger reasons that keep them two party systems. No need to
change opinions since I believe we share them :-). Sorry about sending
confusing messages.
BR, Juho
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