Re: FPTP family theory, REDLOG shadowing

Dear Craig, it seems to me that you walked into Saari's trap. Although you don't promote the Borda Method, you use Saari's geometrical model of elections. But Saari's geometrical model of elections implicitely presumes that there is an even distribution of candidates. Otherwise it wouldn't be

RE: The family of regular probabilistic (stochastic) electoralsystems

Yes!. consider, if you will, the removal of candidate A from 1 A 1 B At 17:51 09.12.99 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in part-- Okay- "Regularity" is the name used earlier by Albert Langer (Craig might recognise the name ;) ) to describe the probabilistic analogue of

RE: The family of regular probabilistic (stochastic) electoral systems

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in part-- Okay- "Regularity" is the name used earlier by Albert Langer (Craig might recognise the name ;) ) to describe the probabilistic analogue of IIA. It goes like this- The addition (removal) of a candidate does not, for any other candidate, increase (decrease) the