Mr. Cretney wrote in part- Dear Markus, So, is your position that it is impossible for the choice of electoral method to affect the quality of government? Or that we have no hope of choosing methods that provide better government? ---- D- Folks with some time might want to read The Outline of History by H.G. Wells (various editions 1920 to 1949). Mr. Wells notes the possible origins of the earliest known governments and the developments in the last 6,000 plus years. I note that most of them have been de facto elitist monarchial/ oligarchial minority rule governments (including many so-called democratic forms of government -- including the U.S. Congress and every State legislature in the U.S. due to various gerrymander systems). Most really *democratic* (i.e. indirect majority rule) forms of government are based on *modern* proportional representation methods with various degrees of accuracy. Democratic forms are *better* IF there are equal laws equally enforced (as compared to the almost continuous oppression of majorities by elitist minorities for the last 6,000 plus years). See also The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke (1690).