At 12:55 AM 6/23/2008, Chris Benham wrote:
Kathy,
Imagine that Approval is used to elect the US President and
as in the current campaign the Republicans are fielding one
candidate, McCain. Does that mean that the big fight for the
Democrat nomination between Clinton and Obama we've just
One more observation. Nowadays many methods actually try to meet two
kind of proportionality requirements, political/ideological
proportionality (typically based on the party structure) and regional
proportionality (typically implemented by mandating all to vote at
their own home district for the
Question to Kristofer
do you see the issues that you start off with as orthogonal?
i.e. do you see this only working in a world where the issues polled are
independent.
also, how it would be decided what issues are polled? even in a
simulation this is important.
Ultimately there are a
Hi,
I prefer a definition of representativeness that differs from
Kristofer's. To me, the more similar the *decisions* of a legislature
are to the decisions the people themselves would make collectively in a
well-functioning direct democracy, the more representative is the
legislature.
