Has anyone heard of, or know who this person is? I stumbled upon this "paper":
http://pro.harvard.edu/abstracts/004/004004MonroeBurt.htm http://pro.harvard.edu/papers/004/004004MonroeBurt.pdf At this message's bottom is the abstract for the paper. Anyway, he speaks rather favorably of a method called "Voice of Reason (Monroe)." I can't figure out what it is from the paper. He proposes a criterion "Nonelection of Irrelevant Alternatives," and in a chart towards the end he says it is satisfied by Plurality, Approval, IRV, Runoff, and (his own?) "Voice of Reason." He describes the criterion: "A voting system satisfies NIA if there is no [Myerson-Weber] voting equilibrium in which the set of winners includes an alternative that is considered by all voters to be the least preferable." Sorry in advance if this guy is nuts, but it's got me curious. Kevin Venzke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Burt L. Monroe. "Raising Turkeys: An Extension and Devastating Application of Myerson-Weber Voting Equilibrium." Paper prepared for delivery at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 2001. Abstract: I use Myerson-Weber (1993) voting equilibrium, and an extension thereof, to show that most theoretically-possible voting systems are subject to "turkey-raising" — strategic voters overstating their preferences for least-preferred alternatives. Moreover, the incentives to turkey-raise are such that even alternatives unanimously considered by all voters to be the worst possible are elected in equilibrium under most voting systems. For a voting system to not be useless in this way, it must ask only for crude preference information (as under plurality rule or approval voting), or respond amonotically to complex preference information (as under alternative vote), or both (as under runoff systems and "near-plurality" rules). Democratic institutions that do not satisfy these criteria (e.g., Borda, anti-plurality rule, Copeland, Dodgson, Black, Nanson, Coombs, etc., etc., as well as multiple-winner extensions of these) are not just unused, but useless. ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Election-methods mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.electorama.com/listinfo.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com