On 01/03/2012 10:44 PM, Ted Stern wrote:
I've seen examples in which Bucklin (with equal ratings) fails the
Participation criterion, AKA Woodall's mono-add-top criterion for
deterministic methods:
"the participation criterion says that the addition of a ballot,
where candidate A is strictly preferred to candidate B, to an
existing tally of votes should not change the winner from candidate
A to candidate B." (from Wikipedia)
Mono-add-top is not the same thing as Participation. IRV passes the
former but fails the latter (to my knowledge).
Consider a method where, given a certain ballot set, A wins, that the
method's social ordering is A > C > B > D, and that no A-top vote can
change the winner. Then someone comes along and votes B > A > C > D.
After he does so, the winner switches to C. Then that method fails
Participation (because the voter who submitted that ballot expressed A >
C yet the method switched from A to C), but not mono-add-top (because B
> A > C > D is not an A-first ballot, and it didn't harm B's relative
position in the ordering because B wasn't a winner anyway).
That said, I am not aware of any examples where two-level Bucklin fails
either Participation or mono-add-top. If the voters have to rank every
candidate and have only two levels, then I think Bucklin always gives
the same result as Approval (in which case it would pass both). With
truncation, however, it gets more murky.
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