On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 22:49 +0000, Michael Ossipoff wrote: > One thing that I forgot to mention when I posted before about this: In the > U.S. at least, the issues are strongly linked. People's opinions on them are > strongly correlated. That's because an authoritarian is going to be > authoritarian on everything, typically. > > So a 1-dimensional issue-space isn't a bad approximation. With that > reasonable approximation, the CW is the SU maximizer. > > Mike Ossipoff
Of course, the political scientist and voting theorist in me says that politics are largely 1-dimensional exactly because of the voting system we use. Oh well, Scott Ritchie ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
