What is the best design for a legislature? Parliaments come in several flavors: 1. districted single winner contests 2. party-based systems 3. mutlwinner methods 4. delegation
My friend and I were debating Largest Rem + Referendum (2) vs Delegation (4). My argument was essentially this: LRRef creates two entities: parliament and the public I argued that this division of labor benefits society. Parliament would represent society arbitrarily well. Assembling all of parliament is trivial. Largest Rem avoids the disadvantage of the long tail of Delegation parliament and putting legislation on the ballot allows LRRef to access the complete representation that Delegation advocates claim. Perhaps there is something to be said for eliminating the distinction between the rulers and the ruled, but I'd say that the danger of the commodification of voting is more dangerous. So yeah, if there is some design for a legislature you consider superior to all others, do not hesitate to list it. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
