Dear Diego, > In most societies, the "majority dictatorship" is not a major problem because > electors' preferences shift along time, and the 49% can became the > majoritarian faction in the next elections.
They may become a majority but often they are not for a long time. As you don't seem to like chance, why do you suggest to base political participation on chance? > In divided societies for ethnic, cultural or religious system, where > consensus is desirable, proprotional representation for legislatures and > supermajoritarian methods for single-winner elections (as for head of state > in many parliamentary republics) are better than probabilistic methods. Are they? Why do you think so? And what exactly do you think a proportional representation will help when the representative body decides with a majoritarian method? 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
