On Jun 24, 2008, at 0:34 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
What do you mean by "methods that allow candidates to form a
tree like structure"? Something like delegable proxy, or just
preference ballots with parties instead of candidates? Or
nontraditional nested democracy (groups elect members to an
assembly - groups of assemblies elect members to a second-
level assembly, onwards up to global issues)?
I was thinking about the traditional party structure and proportional
methods and how they may provide quite exact proportionality between
parties but how they can not provide proportionality in any more
detailed level. In this set-up it is possible to split one party e.g.
to the green wing and others, and then the green wing could consist
of radical and moderate greens. A vote to the radical greens (of this
party) would be a vote also to the green wing in general and to the
party in general.
The point was that now you could have even the binary decisions
"stacked" in the party hierarchy (at least if the tree would be a
binary tree). In this model it would also make a difference if you
vote the green wing of the socialists or the socialist wing of the
greens (order of priority).
Juho
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