On 30 Aug 2005 at 08:51 UTC-0700, Kevin Venzke wrote: > What do you disagree with?
That FBC-failure in a single general election held with Condorcet or Condorcet/Approval hybrid will lead to 2 party dominance. My point was that the dominance begins in the primary. > > If you disagree that DMC fails FBC, I don't have a failure example at > the moment. But I would be shocked if DMC satisfies FBC, since DMC is a > Condorcet method. > > When I read your second paragraph, you seem to be arguing that even methods > which satisfy FBC will fail it if there are primaries. But that doesn't > seem to be a disagreement with anything I said. > > When I referred to "the argument..." I was referring to Warren's argument. > Perhaps that's where you disagreed. > > I don't know what "TTFN" means. Ta-ta for now! -- araucaria dot araucana at gmail dot com http://www.metafilter.com/user/23101 http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/User:Araucaria Q = Qoph = "monkey/knot" -- see http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/alphabet.html ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
