--- On Thu, 11/6/09, Kevin Venzke <step...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> In Schulze you foremost want to defeat every other
> candidate head-to-head.
> If we are even looking at beatpaths, all candidates have
> failed their
> first goal.
Yes, in Schulze and other Condorcet
methods the primary goal can be said
to be to be the Condorcet winner /
win all other candidates.
> > I think that favouring large parties is not the same
> as
> > favouring cooperation.
> > Actually I would be content with a method which
> > converges to a state where there are at least four
> major
> > parties. I regard two-party system too static.
> >
> > Could you point me to studies about this?
>
> Does it have to be a single-winner method?
Yes, multi-party systems are usually
built on (proportional) multi-winner
methods. Condorcet methods work well
in a multi-party setting when one has
to elect one single winner in some
election.
Juho
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