> Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a �crit : > > > [...] You may > > increase meeting efficiency by excluding minority factions, but at the cost > > of potentially excluding them in deliberations toward consensus.
This is not necessary. The efficiency aspect can be treated after the representation exercise. Many politicians only want voters to see that problem as a trade-off: more representation = less stability and efficiency; less representation = more stability and efficiency. I disagree. Taking any electoral system, one can, in the case of an unstable chamber (I consider bipartite coalitions as stable, but take a minoritarian government if you want) build a stable chamber that would preserve the fair representation previously obtained. The crutch option I described in SPPA is only one of many ways to do that, using time as an additional dimension in this case. Steph. ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
