> > 1. I disagree; I do not think IRV will do well in the scenario you > describe. >
Well that's why we'd need to try it out.... > > 2. It's too complex. We need toy models that focus on one aspect at a > time, not anything that tries to be realistic. Think macroeconomics 101 > (saltwater), where anything that doesn't fit on one graph is put off until > next year. > Nope. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. We can and should go beyond Macro 101. I'm willing to defend each part of the model here, but I think it as a whole captures an environment where election rules have different effects in a system where the center is somewhat opaque and parties are not stationary or able to reposition themselves at will along the 1-d space used by voters . So "chicken"??? dlw > > jq >
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