Dear Abd ul-Rahman,
> No. That's consensus. Consent is individual acceptance of a result,
> majority consent refers to consent by a majority.
Yes, obviously I was confusing the two :-)
> >It is not democratic whenever some group can impose its will on the
> >others (in the sense of making thei
Dear Abd ul-Rahman,
> No. It's an understanding of what utilities mean.
If you think so...
> If A does not win,
> the supporters of A lose something. They are in the majority. If each
> of them grabs a B supporter and wrestles with him, or her, I suppose,
> the excess A supporters can then a
Dear Abd ul-Rahman,
> Okay, here is my solution. The B voters gain some very substantial
> advantage for the election of C over the favorite of the A voters,
> who have only a substantially smaller preference for A over C.
>
> So the B voters offer something of value to the A voters to
> compe
Dear Brian!
> But to me the end of the strategy discussion is that the A faction
> could simply bullet vote and no system can recover from a simple
> majority of votes {A=100,B=0,C=0}.
If that was so, I would not have posed the question :-)
There are methods that will lead to the election of
Dear Diego,
> In most societies, the "majority dictatorship" is not a major problem because
> electors' preferences shift along time, and the 49% can became the
> majoritarian faction in the next elections.
They may become a majority but often they are not for a long time. As you don't
seem to
> I dislike any undeterministic method, except for tie-braking
And I dislike methods that give all power to only one half of the voters and
can be used to oppress 49% of the electorate :-)
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Dear Abd ul-Rahman,
> Oh! You want a democratic election method!
You got the point! I am not thinking a method that gives all power to one
person is democratic. By the way, I also don't think a method which gives all
power to 51% of the voters is democratic. This is what the challenge is all
a
Dear Rob!
It is possible (otherwise I would not have posted this challenge :-)
But of course it is not possible with a majoritarian method (that's what you
observed).
Keep on, one of the possible solutions is really simple (though not very good
in other respects)...
> -Ursprüngliche Nachr
