On Jul 31, 2008, at 0:50 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
In any case, the left-right problem would still be a limitation to
RRV, where ballots are set so that RV (and any sensible method)
would elect Center first, but where electing an assembly of two
should elect Left and Right. For some reason, that problem doesn't
appear in party list, but I don't know why.
I'm not sure if I understood you correctly, but isn't that the same
difference as between highest average based methods (http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_averages_method) and largest reminder
based methods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_remainder_method)
that both can be used with party lists?
I guess any method that picks the winners one by one until sufficient
number of representatives has been elected fails to elect both the
centrist (1 representative) and left+right (2 representatives) in the
example above. On the other hand if we follow the example that means
that Alabama paradox is what we want.
Juho
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