On 08/31/2013 02:24 PM, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
This may be a bit outside what is usually discussed here, but I'll give
it a shot and if someone know of some resources I should check up on
then please let me know.
I've not followed this list for a long time, but my impression is that
the main focu
On 07/29/2013 07:22 PM, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 01:36:49PM +0200, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
On 07/28/2013 04:37 PM, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
Upper apportionment:
- Party seats are apportioned using unmodified Sainte-Laguë based on
national votes. If desirable the first
Here's a short post (since I don't have as much time as I would like)
with an idea of how to make Sainte-Lague even more like STV. I started
thinking about it as part of my thinking that "perhaps pairwise
multiwinner methods will always be too complex"; and so I tried to
include some Condorcet
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 09:41:50AM +0200, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
>>If it is within the scope of this list, what are your thoughts on the
>>subject?
>>Alternatively:
>>Assuming the perfect election system where voting any different than
>>your real preference would only hurt your preference,
Good Afternoon, Vidar Wahlberg
I'm happy to see that Kristofer Munsterhjelm responded to your post.
You probably are already familiar with him, but I've always found him
the most thoughtful contributor on this site. He rarely agrees with me,
but he describes his point of view with so much cla
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 09:55:57AM +0200, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by "exactly how it's done in counties
> today", though. If you mean that the apportionment of seats to
> counties (i.e. how many seats each district gets in the district
> target) is done by unmodif
On 09/02/2013 09:23 PM, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
I once considered a hybrid system that *would* use elections, but in
a quite different way: first you'd select a significant number of
people at random, and then these would elect from among their
number. It does away with continuity both for ill (pr
Fred Gohlke said:
> The other is Dr. Mansbridge's working paper entitled, "A 'Selection
> Model' of Political Representation", which is available at:
>
> http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP08-010
This link worked for me:
https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/workingp
Welcome Vidar,
> You're not off track [Juho], the basis of my question was that given
> a democratic election, how should the government/election be formed
> to reduce the incentive for candidates/parties to talk down other
> candidates/parties, and encourage people to vote for candidates/
> parti
