On 02/15/2012 08:46 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
As I've said before, I'm writing a paper on SODA and the chicken dilemma. I'd appreciate any real-world examples of the dilemma. Obviously, since a true chicken dilemma is not possible with either plurality, runoffs, or IRV, I'm looking for cases that arguably would have been a chicken dilemma under approval. That means that the two "vote splitting" factions would almost certainly have clearly preferred each other to the opposing faction, but there was still enough bad blood and a close enough balance that they could easily have failed to cooperate. I'd say HI-01-2010 qualifies as a good example; US-Pres-2000 doesn't, because many of the Nader voters affirmed that they would not have voted for Gore, and anyway, Gore won both the popular vote and the most self-consistent counts of Florida.
Wouldn't the Burr dilemma count? That *was* Approval. Granted, it was used to elect more than one candidate, but you could argue the property would remain in a singlewinner context.
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