Dear Abd ul-Rahman, > Oh! You want a democratic election method!
You got the point! I am not thinking a method that gives all power to one person is democratic. By the way, I also don't think a method which gives all power to 51% of the voters is democratic. This is what the challenge is all about! > "True ratings," I've been pointing out, is not clear in meaning. > These ratings are obviously normalized, so they are not absolute > ratings, and therefore we cannot tell what the SU winner would be. Right. As you know I don't believe in interpersonally comparable utilities. What I intended to suggest with those numbers was that the voters consider the compromise as largely as good as a lottery which elects their favourite in 80% of the cases and the other's favourite in 20%. > The method, of course, is a Range method. Ranked methods cannot > detect the compromise winner, who, incidentally, violates the > Majority and Condorcet Criteria. A winner does not violate a criterion, a method does. But you're right that the method we're searching for cannot possibly meet the majority criterion since that criterion is the core of the problem. > (And, contrary to the assumptions, most people will *change* their > preference if they understand that others have strong preferences > compared to their own weak ones. We are social animals. So, again, if > the utilities given were accurate, and the electorate now knows this, > there is even more force toward C winning. A voters will change their > vote, and B voters will not, plus many A voters will abstain whereas > B voters will be highly motivated to turn out and vote. If I lived in > this society, I certainly would not be betting on A. If I were, I > would also be buying a ticket out with my winnings. This society > would be headed for major disaster, on the Ruanda scale. -- and if I > lost the bet, I'd breathe a huge sigh of relief.) That would be so wonderful if you were right here. My experience is different, however. Yours, Jobst ______________________________________________________________________________ Jetzt neu! Im riesigen WEB.DE Club SmartDrive Dateien freigeben und mit Freunden teilen! http://www.freemail.web.de/club/smartdrive_ttc.htm/?mc=021134 ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
