Kristofer Munsterhjelm Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:58 AM
In a parliamentary system, I imagine it would be possible for the party
leadership to decide (in the manner that they decide a list under party
list PR). How do parties in actual single-winner district parliamentary
countries
Dave Ketchum wrote:
On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Kevin Venzke wrote:
Hi Kristofer,
--- En date de : Mer 16.6.10, Kristofer Munsterhjelm
km-el...@broadpark.no a écrit :
That is possible. Would primaries encourage that effect? If
so, would we expect parties in two-party states without
voter
Hello,
The last thing I did with my simulation is check whether on average a
candidate would prefer to have withdrawn (considering the results of
thousands of trials of one position) than stand, with the assumption that
they care what happens when they lose. (I'm not sure that's actually a
good
Kevin Venzke wrote:
Hello,
The last thing I did with my simulation is check whether on average a
candidate would prefer to have withdrawn (considering the results of
thousands of trials of one position) than stand, with the assumption that
they care what happens when they lose. (I'm not sure
Kevin Venzke wrote:
Hi Kristofer,
--- En date de : Mer 16.6.10, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-el...@broadpark.no a
écrit :
I think that a nomination simulation would have to be more
complex, to take feedback into account. Candidates would
position themselves somewhere in opinion space, then move
On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Kevin Venzke wrote:
Hi Kristofer,
--- En date de : Mer 16.6.10, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-el...@broadpark.no
a écrit :
Even so, the simulation would fail to catch
certain aspects
of the election cycle itself. Consider a two party
state
under FPTP. In a pure
On Jun 16, 2010, at 11:11 PM, Kevin Venzke wrote:
Hi Dave,
--- En date de : Mer 16.6.10, Dave Ketchum
da...@clarityconnect.com a écrit :
That is possible. Would primaries encourage that
effect? If
so, would we expect parties in two-party states
without
voter primaries to be closer to each
