Re: [EM] Challenge: two-party methods

2011-07-10 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Juho Laatu wrote: On 9.7.2011, at 14.23, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho Laatu wrote: After some recent discussions and thoughts around two-party systems I thought it would be interesting to discuss two-party systems also in a more positive spirit. The assumption is thus that we want the

Re: [EM] Median-based Proportional Representation

2011-07-10 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Jameson Quinn wrote: 2011/7/8 Warren Smith warren@gmail.com mailto:warren@gmail.com Sorry, as Jameson pointed out, he has invented a voting method he calls AT-TV which (he claims) 1. obeys a proportional representation theorem Yes. It's instructive to see what PR

Re: [EM] Median-based Proportional Representation

2011-07-10 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Toby Pereira wrote: Is this just the Instant Run-off version of STV that you're talking about that pays no attention to who you ranked below top? Also your example here - http://rangevoting.org/PRcond.html - would that be resolved under any form of STV in existence? The DPC says that at

Re: [EM] Challenge: two-party methods

2011-07-10 Thread Juho Laatu
First I'll try to clarify the definitions a bit. It is so obvious what a two-party system is, but when I think more carefully it is not that clear. Two-party system: - has a single-party government - one of the two major parties forms the government and the other one forms (the main part of)