On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Markus Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raph Frank wrote (31 Aug 2008): > >> I think this is the strategy that most parties actually >> use for vote management. They never recommend to the >> voters not to rank a certain party member. > > Actually, it is the main hypothesis of my paper that > Hylland free riding and vote management are actually the > same. In section 5.1 of my paper, I write:
Right, what I meant was that parties don't actually use 'pure' Hylland free riding, i.e. their first choice is excluded, they just push that person down the rankings. Btw, is there a simplified explanation of your PR-STV method somewhere ? >From what I can see, it compares possible outcomes pairwise like CPO-STV (but only compares outcomes that differ by 1 member). Ideally, the simplified version would just need to explain the way to perform that comparison (if each comparison doesn't depend on any of the others) ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
