Anthony Duff wrote:
I am interested in the question of the frequency of non-existance of
a sincere CW. I personally do not know that it is probable.
In Merrill, Making Multicandidate..., in the table on p.24, he shows
frequency of sincere CW for 5 candidates under a random society
Anthony Duff asked:
I am interested in the question of the frequency
of non-existence of a sincere CW. I personally
do not know that it is probable.
Here's another reason to occasionally expect
sincere cycles at the top, when we're electing
candidates to offices: Candidates want to win!
Bart I asked:
Steve Eppley wrote:
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Steven Brams, I presume. But it's such an unimportant
property, since it's laughably unrealistic to assume
voters' sincere preferences are dichotomous when there
are more than two candidates. It's a product of the
publish or perish syndrome, most
I think there something I didn't realise before writing this...
I'm not in the frame of electing one! person and the point
is that it changes everything... Maybe I shouldn't have made
the analogy with approval system. PR systems are s
different from election for one person which are usualy
Philippe Errembault Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:25 AM
In fact, I'm trying to find a solution for a problem we have
in Belgium with a proportional representation system...
The big solution is simple: change to STV-PR. That will solve your specific problem
and bring
many other
Dear Election Methods,
Despite Arnold's best efforts (which, frankly, are better than anyone
else has done here for decades) California appears to be in the grip of
a perpetual governance crisis. The result is that at least one
well-known columnist is calling for radical reforms, including
Hi James,
On Aug 25, 2004, at 4:20 AM, James Gilmour wrote:
One part of a smaller solution would be to make the list order
irrelevant, but that would not
please the party managers. Even if you did that and allowed voters to
mark several candidates
within a given party list, you would not
For those who didn't read the appendix - here's a brief summary of
Belgium's elections. Party list voting decides the number of seats
per party. Within a given party, you may either vote for the
standard party order, in which case your vote is treated like a STV vote,
or you may vote for multiple
Dr.Ernie Prabhakar Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:30 PM
to. With STV-PR, is there any way to preserve 'weak'
locality? That is, say I have district magnitude of 20, so I can
conceptually identify 20 subdistricts which have been combined into a single
district for PR purposes.
I agree with everything James wrote, I'd just like to make an addition.
James Gilmour wrote:
Dr.Ernie Prabhakar Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:30 PM
But, with PR, it can get quite complicated. Has anyone thought about
the 'fairest' way to maximize locality while preserving PR? Or, is
Dr.Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
Ah, okay, I think I'm getting it. So, how the heck does one define
natural communities in any sort of objective manner? City boundaries?
Commute flows? Geography?
There was an excellent discussion about this in the archives. Here's a
link that links to it:
Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/election-methods-list/message/13066
Basically, commute flows (or road bandwidth) was regarded as the best
measure, as it encapsulates geography and demographics pretty well.
Yeah, I remember that (lanes of traffic). I even started writing
Thanks to everyone, especially James. Enclosed is a shorter and
hopefully wiser proposal; I think the PR bit is in pretty good shape.
Anyone want to comment on my suggestion for write/edit bicameralism?
-- Ernie P.
Reengineering California: Towards A 21st Century Legislature
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