Re: [EM] Alternative electoral systems as tools to promote socialnetworks and activism

2004-11-26 Thread Bryan Ford
Hi Jan, thanks for your comments. Both of your objections center around the "granularity issue" - in the first case, allowing voters to choose only one delegate when they might like to support several; in the second case, allowing voters to choose only "whole candidates" without being able to

Re: [EM] Alternative electoral systems as tools to promotesocialnetworks and activism

2004-11-26 Thread Stephane Rouillon
Jan Kok a écrit : > Bryan, > > I applaud you for thinking about, writing about, and promoting a mechanism > that encourages grass-roots activism. However, I see a couple of problems > with the indrep idea in its present form: > > 1. Why do you recommend allowing each voter to vote for only one c

[EM] Names for equilibria. Principled voting. Our 0-info elections.

2004-11-26 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Alex-- OK, so there are many different ways to generalize/extend/apply/whatever the concept of Nash equilibrium to voting, and my preferred formalism is hardly the only way to do it. I am no longer interested in the issue of who gave what name to what. I reply: That was evident from the fact

Re: [EM] Alternative electoral systems as tools to promote socialnetworks and activism

2004-11-26 Thread Jan Kok
Bryan, I applaud you for thinking about, writing about, and promoting a mechanism that encourages grass-roots activism. However, I see a couple of problems with the indrep idea in its present form: 1. Why do you recommend allowing each voter to vote for only one candidate? That's Plurality voti