Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-28 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Juho re: I'd encourage maintaining some separation of the political and business segments of the society. How would you go about accomplishing that? re: The triads and other low level approaches may do good job in at least waking up some potential leaders. It is

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-28 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Sat, 28/3/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: Good Morning, Juho re: I'd encourage maintaining some separation of the political      and business segments of the society.. How would you go about accomplishing that? I think there are many options. One could start for

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-25 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Juho re: (Btw, I think there are interesting prospects also in the other hierarchies.) Given the extraordinary morass our political system has bestowed upon us ... to the extreme disadvantage of our progeny ... it would be well to select the most practical parts of those

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-25 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Wed, 25/3/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: http://www.wallstreetwatch.org/soldoutreport.htm It describes how the financial sector bribed our representatives to produce the monstrosity that now engulfs us.  The article provides a link to the full report (a 3MB

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-22 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Sun, 22/3/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: Good Afternoon, Juho re: Our political systems do have serious problems but on the      other hand we are somewhat above 'the laws of jungle'. We may be ... somewhat above 'the laws of the jungle', but that's no testament

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-20 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Terry Thanks for joining in. I hope more people will show an interest. re: I suspect part of the differences are that you place such an overwhelming focus on political parties as the center of control and corruption, while others may view parties as virtually

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-18 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Juho I've been on the fence about whether or not it is appropriate for me to respond to your last message on this thread. Since I'm aware you ... value many of the political systems of today higher than ... I do, and since we've exchanged many thoughts over the past year, I

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-18 Thread Terry Bouricius
of party officials, and can assure you they are not in control of things. Terry Bouricius - Original Message - From: Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [EM] language/framing quibble Good Morning

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-18 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Wed, 18/3/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: Good Morning, Juho I've been on the fence about whether or not it is appropriate for me to respond to your last message on this thread.  Since I'm aware you ... value many of the political systems of today higher than ... I

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-14 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Juho re: ... I wondered at what level in the society the discussions yield best results and where they will stimulate new discussion. At all levels! At the very first level, when three people discuss their local ordinances and budget, they will be talking about matters

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-14 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Sat, 14/3/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: Good Morning, Juho re: ... I wondered at what level in the society the discussions      yield best results and where they will stimulate new      discussion. At all levels! At the very first level, when three people

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-10 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Juho re: (Exchange of ideas could be also weak in many triads.) I wonder why you think the point worth mentioning? Is it not self-evident? The intensity with which ideas are exchanged among humans varies infinitely. Practical Democracy creates a setting in which ideas can be

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-10 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Tue, 10/3/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: Good Morning, Juho re: (Exchange of ideas could be also weak in many triads.) I wonder why you think the point worth mentioning?  Is it not self-evident?  Yes, quite self-evident. I just noted it since I wondered at what

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-08 Thread Michael Allan
Fred Gohlke wrote: Political parties have controlled our existence for 200 years. During that period, we have seen incredible advances in technology, but, instead of those changes redounding to the benefit of the people, they have empowered a few at the expense of the rest of us ... 150

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-08 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Afternoon, Juho re: Yes, that method reduces campaigning since all decisions are very local. The answer in this case seems to be to reduce the number of candidates that each voter can vote. The purpose of the method is not to reduce the number of candidates that each voter can

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-08 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Sun, 8/3/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: Good Afternoon, Juho re: Yes, that method reduces campaigning since all decisions are      very local.  The answer in this case seems to be to reduce      the number of candidates that each voter can vote. The purpose of

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-07 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Afternoon, David re: Your quote sounds like part of a thought I would have expressed - be nice if you tied it back to: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:43:34 -0500 My real question then was what label you would be willing to use for what many of us call campaigning, since you seem

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-06 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Juho re: [my comment] If we design a process that does not require campaigning, the evils of campaigning will be avoided. [you asked] How will you do that? The method outlined in my February 4, 2008 post, Selecting Leaders From The People does not require campaigning.

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-06 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Afternoon, James re: The person 'they want' may well not want the job. That is not a flaw, it is a fact of political life. However, we have no right to assume people don't want the job. We must give everyone an opportunity to seek it. Those who do not want it will make the fact

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-06 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Fri, 6/3/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: Good Morning, Juho re: [my comment] If we design a process that does not require     campaigning, the evils of campaigning will be avoided.     [you asked] How will you do that? The method outlined in my February 4, 2008

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-05 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, David re: Suppose I take an interest in becoming mayor of Owego. This will require my neighbors learning this, and something of what I might do as mayor. The essence of democracy is not what you want, it is what the people of Owego want. The only way we can find out

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-05 Thread James Gilmour
Fred Gohlke Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:24 PM The essence of democracy is not what you want, it is what the people of Owego want. The only way we can find out who the people of Owego want to be their mayor is to ask them. Our present electoral methods do not ask the people who

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-05 Thread Dave Ketchum
You do not change the basics but, anyhow: A smaller group could decide. HOW did they get the authority. I suspect many will agree that lot is unacceptable except for resolving ties when there is nothing better available. Anyway, whoever is deciding has the same learning need that I

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-05 Thread Dave Ketchum
Your quote sounds like part of a thought I would have expressed - be nice if you tied it back to: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:43:34 -0500 My real question then was what label you would be willing to use for what many of us call campaigning, since you seem to use a different meaning for that word.

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-03 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Juho re: In this case there are also opportunities in campaigning before nomination. In which case? In the case of the present system, where campaigning is used to 'sell' corrupt politicians to the people? re: [my comment] As you said to Kristofer Munsterhjelm on this

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-03 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, David re: ... this is campaigning, and I do not understand your apparent fear of that word. Fear is not quite the right word, I find campaigning repugnant. Campaigning is a rabble-rousing technique. It does not appeal to the voter's reason, it is designed by professionals

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Ketchum
So, you do not like the word campaign. Suppose I take an interest in becoming mayor of Owego. This will require my neighbors learning this, and something of what I might do as mayor. What shall we call this getting the word out, if not campaigning? Because parties are usually involved,

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-03-03 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Dave Ketchum wrote: So, you do not like the word campaign. Suppose I take an interest in becoming mayor of Owego. This will require my neighbors learning this, and something of what I might do as mayor. What shall we call this getting the word out, if not campaigning? Because parties are

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-02-28 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Juho re: [my comment] There is no reason why [the people] must, or should, let self-interested groups arrogate the selection of candidates to themselves. We have the means to let the people make their own choices and ... if we believe in democratic government ...

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-02-26 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Juho Laatu wrote: --- On Tue, 17/2/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: Whether or not the US is a democracy is a semantic question. I use this term roughly so that a country is democratic if people are able to make change x if they are determined to make x happen. There should be

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-02-26 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Thu, 26/2/09, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-el...@broadpark.no wrote: Juho Laatu wrote: --- On Tue, 17/2/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: Whether or not the US is a democracy is a semantic question. I use this term roughly so that a country is democratic if

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-02-25 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Wed, 25/2/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: Good Afternoon, Juho re: Probably one can not avoid formation of some kind of groupings or parties, and of course they may also contribute positively. Just need to avoid the numerous common pitfalls /

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-02-24 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Afternoon, Juho re: Probably one can not avoid formation of some kind of groupings or parties, and of course they may also contribute positively. Just need to avoid the numerous common pitfalls / problems. If we are to avoid the numerous common pitfalls / problems, is not

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-02-22 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Tue, 17/2/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: Whether or not the US is a democracy is a semantic question. I use this term roughly so that a country is democratic if people are able to make change x if they are determined to make x happen. There should be no fear of coup,

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-02-14 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Fri, 13/2/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: re: I meant that it is typically easier to build on what one has than to tear down the existing system and replace it with some new system that is meant to be ideal. That is unquestionably true. However, the attempt

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-02-13 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Juho re: (In response to my comment that: If the systems supposed to support sincere discussions and wise decision making are implemented without provision to insure the people elected to public office are people of intellect and integrity, we should not be

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-02-01 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Sat, 31/1/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: Good Morning, Juho re: People are not always good at reason based free discussions. How could they be? What, in our political systems, encourages reason based discussions? The method I've outlined cultivates such

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-01-31 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Juho re: People are not always good at reason based free discussions. How could they be? What, in our political systems, encourages reason based discussions? The method I've outlined cultivates such discussion among the electorate. Not the pseudo-discussion of campaign-based

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-01-31 Thread Michael Allan
Fred Gohlke wrote: Would that I had the wit and wisdom to enthuse others to make our political infrastructures more democratic ... and more amenable to the dynamics MacIntyre describes. We would all benefit. You probably do, in measure with the rest of us. But the infrastructure you

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-01-26 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Juho Let me start by apologizing for my tardy response. Although it was not the only cause, there was an extenuating circumstance: We were invaded ... by our offspring. My wife and I celebrated our 57th wedding anniversary and, for some reason, our family thought that worthy

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-01-13 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Afternoon, Juho re: The first thing in my mind would not be to limit contacts between legislators and lobbyists but to limit too heavy bindings, maybe most notably monetary dependencies. One could limit e.g. second jobs, right to move to some commercial position,

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-01-13 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Tue, 13/1/09, Fred Gohlke fredgoh...@verizon.net wrote: Good Afternoon, Juho re: The first thing in my mind would not be to limit contacts between legislators and lobbyists but to limit too heavy bindings, maybe most notably monetary dependencies. One could limit

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-01-07 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: Good Morning, Kristofer Thank you very much for the link to the Mother Jones article describing efforts to curtail the utter domination corporations exert over our existence. Perhaps, in time, reason will triumph. [snip] Again, I don't have much to comment on, but I

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-01-06 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Kristofer Thank you very much for the link to the Mother Jones article describing efforts to curtail the utter domination corporations exert over our existence. Perhaps, in time, reason will triumph. re: Practical Democracy really then has two parts - the selection phase

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-12-30 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: Good Morning, Kristofer re: I agree with your first point [that extending the rights of humans to non-human entities is a flawed concept], but the precedent seems to go all the way back to 1886. Precedent has a place in our lives but it ought not, and need not, be

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-12-07 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: Good Morning, Kristofer [The following relates to the corruption of elected officials after they take office.] re: ... make the system so competitive that the pressure to be honest is greater than that to become corrupt. I don't think it can be done by the

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-12-02 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Afternoon, Dave Your recitation of the history of the Green Party in New York is typical of efforts to create political alternatives. In my view, we will be better served when we forget labels like Left and Right and Green and Liberal and Conservative and devote our energy to seeking

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-26 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: Good Morning, Kristofer re: You may say that parties, wanting to be re-elected, would stay in center ... I think parties are more inclined to keep one foot in the center while stretching as far as they can toward the extreme with the other. That's why we so often

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-25 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Afternoon, Dave I fear there is a great difference in our views. You seem to feel parties have a rightful place in our political infrastructure. I don't. I have no objection to the existence of parties. I consider them a vital part of society. However, I deny, vehemently, that they

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-25 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: re: I use the term 'selected', since elected doesn't really fit. There's no public election, there's simply a whole lot of mini-elections that come together. Again, I agree. I've been using 'elected' out of deference to the site, but I vastly prefer the concept

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Ketchum
While I see value in parties, the purpose of my post was to describe what happens in New York State - parties here are not permitted the power you had described - or do describe below. The Greens are, in one sense, a world wide party. A few years ago they owned no elective power in NY -

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-23 Thread Fred Gohlke
COMMENTS ON AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES Political parties are quasi-official institutions designed to acquire the reins of government. They sponsor candidates for public office by providing the resources needed to conduct a campaign for election. As a condition of their sponsorship, they

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-23 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:34:01 -0500 Fred Gohlke wrote: COMMENTS ON AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES ... OLIGARCHIC PARTY STRUCTURE The political parties that control all political activity in the United States are in no sense democratic. The American people do not elect those who control the

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-22 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Kristofer re: You may say that parties, wanting to be re-elected, would stay in center ... I think parties are more inclined to keep one foot in the center while stretching as far as they can toward the extreme with the other. That's why we so often hear that the

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-18 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: Good Morning, Kristofer I'm finding steadily less to comment on; we seem to be reaching a convergence of sorts, where we either agree, or we disagree but have found that the only real way to find out which of us is right is to run this thing in practice. Thus, I've been a

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-15 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Kristofer re: ... would be good for the petition to include information about the level of the person who originated it. My initial reaction to this suggestion was unfavorable, oddly, for the very reason you thought it worthwhile; fear that petitions coming from the lower

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-10 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: Good Morning, Kristofer re: Even without rigid monitoring, there should be a counteracting measure. After all, the councilmembers work on behalf of the people, so if they start consistently diverging from what the people want, there should be a way of

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-06 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Afternoon, Kristofer re: ... the process we're describing is an exponential one. That's where it gains its power, but that also means that the views a candidate has to integrate rises very quickly. Thus it may not only be corruption that limits the representation, but

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-05 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: Good Morning, Kristofer re: So, in essence, the pyramid structure remains even after selection? Yes. We have the capability of retaining the information and it should be used to enhance the role of those elected to act as spokesperson for a segment of the electorate.

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-04 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Kristofer re: So, in essence, the pyramid structure remains even after selection? Yes. We have the capability of retaining the information and it should be used to enhance the role of those elected to act as spokesperson for a segment of the electorate. In this

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-02 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: The proposed electoral method uses computers to maintain a database of the electorate, generate random groupings, and record the selections made at each level, This makes the process inherently bi-directional. Each elected official sits atop a pyramid of known electors, so

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-01 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: Good Morning, Kristofer There is so much good material in your message that, instead of responding to all of it, I'm going to select bits and pieces and comment on them, one at a time, until I've responded to all of them. I hope this will help us focus on specific parts

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-10-31 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Kristofer There is so much good material in your message that, instead of responding to all of it, I'm going to select bits and pieces and comment on them, one at a time, until I've responded to all of them. I hope this will help us focus on specific parts of the complex topic

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-10-31 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Kristofer In this message, I'll respond on the topic of accountability. I'll also attach a copy of the original draft of the concept which may make my ideas a bit clearer. (Items from your letter, so I can see which ones I've answered.) re: Yes. I think recall and the likes

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-10-30 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: Good Evening, Kristofer Before responding to your most recent letter, I'd like to revisit a topic mentioned in your letter of Fri, 26 Sep. In discussing the way a group of three people might resolve a traffic question involving three alternatives, each championed by a

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-23 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Raph re: The principle is that if you can't advance (best case scenario), then just make sure nobody else advances (2nd best scenario). Fortunately, people who would pursue such a course are rare. The majority of humans are rational, reasonable people. They have to

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-23 Thread Raph Frank
On 9/23/08, Fred Gohlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Morning, Raph re: The principle is that if you can't advance (best case scenario), then just make sure nobody else advances (2nd best scenario). Fortunately, people who would pursue such a course are rare. The majority of

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-21 Thread Raph Frank
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Fred Gohlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: re: (About explaining the worst case, where all except a minority gets removed), Ahh, I did with the religious minority? As I said in my response to that explanation, the reasoning is seriously flawed. It is based on

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-20 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Raph re: My concern would be that their opinions would be dismissed out of hand. If there is nobody pushing them at a national level, then that is an almost instinctive reaction to weird ideas (including 'good' weird ideas). Any opinion that can be dismissed

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-18 Thread Raph Frank
On 9/17/08, Fred Gohlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Afternoon, Raph re: However, under your system, they (minority views) do get represented in the level 1 triads. What they lose is the having high level representatives. Ah. Now we're at the crux of the matter ...

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-17 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Afternoon, Raph re: However, under your system, they (minority views) do get represented in the level 1 triads. What they lose is the having high level representatives. Ah. Now we're at the crux of the matter ... Whether or not a minority view retains high level

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-17 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Afternoon, Kristofer re: The rationale (for protecting an opinion not held by the majority of the electorate) is that it enables compromise. I submit that the essence of the Practical Democracy concept is compromise. Three people, exchanging views on a variety of public issues and

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-16 Thread Raph Frank
On 9/15/08, Fred Gohlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Morning, Raph re: (With regard to the suggestion that the process 'Have one triad judge the other'): Well, the person can still try to convince the judges, the point is that he doesn't act as judge of his own fitness.

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-16 Thread Raph Frank
On 9/15/08, Fred Gohlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Holders of minority views who wish their view to gain ascendancy have an obligation to persuade the majority of their compatriots that their (currently minority) view is advantageous for all the people. If they can not do so, they have no

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-16 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: Good Morning, Kristofer Thanks for the link. I'll check it as soon as I can. re: If the council is of size 7, no opinion that holds less than 1/7 of the voters can be represented, so if the opinion is spread too thin, it'll be removed from the system; but if

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-15 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Raph re: (With regard to the suggestion that the process 'Have one triad judge the other'): Well, the person can still try to convince the judges, the point is that he doesn't act as judge of his own fitness. Basically, the six people would meet up and then

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-15 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Kristofer Thanks for the link. I'll check it as soon as I can. re: If the council is of size 7, no opinion that holds less than 1/7 of the voters can be represented, so if the opinion is spread too thin, it'll be removed from the system; but if you have an extreme

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-14 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: Good Afternoon, Kristofer re: This sounds a lot like what I've previously referred to as 'council democracy'. I hadn't heard that term before or seen the proposal. I wonder if the concepts can be merged, perhaps by an analytical critique of the processes. I first

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-13 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Afternoon, again, Kristofer Here is an analysis of the question of group size. Alternative views are welcome. Fred DELIBERATIVE GROUP SIZE and PERSUASION At the initial level, when the entire electorate meets for the first time to select one member of a triad to represent

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-13 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Afternoon, Raph re: A person who wants to be selected would try to convince the other 2 to support him, even if he thinks one of them would be better. This is the conflict of interests. Of course a person who wants to be selected will try to attract the support of the

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-13 Thread Raph Frank
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Fred Gohlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Afternoon, Raph re: A person who wants to be selected would try to convince the other 2 to support him, even if he thinks one of them would be better. This is the conflict of interests. Of course a

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-12 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Raph re: You have created a conflict of interests here. People who don't set aside their own ambition are favoured. Can you supply a rationale to support this statement? Since the human dynamics are the most important aspect of any electoral process, I'd like to understand

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-12 Thread Raph Frank
On 9/12/08, Fred Gohlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: re: You have created a conflict of interests here. People who don't set aside their own ambition are favoured. Can you supply a rationale to support this statement? A person who wants to be selected would try to convince the other 2 to

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-11 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Raph When I offered to send you a draft of the petition outlining a method of selecting candidates for public office, I planned to send it privately. After seeing your response, I asked the author's permission to post it publicly and he agreed. Here's the draft in its current

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-11 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Terry Bouricius re: ... I have long advocated a greater use of sortition (the selection by lot) to select legislators ... It seems to me the problem with picking people by lot is that it provides no means of examining them. I understand that it produces a random sample of the

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-10 Thread James Gilmour
Raph Frank Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:50 AM I was looking at their BC-STV proposal. What is the difference from normal PR-STV (or is calling it BC-STV just a 'marketing ploy' :) )? Depends what you mean by normal. There are at least six different sets of rules for STV-PR now

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-10 Thread Raph Frank
On 9/10/08, James Gilmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raph Frank Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:50 AM I was looking at their BC-STV proposal. What is the difference from normal PR-STV (or is calling it BC-STV just a 'marketing ploy' :) )? Depends what you mean by normal. There

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-10 Thread James Gilmour
Raph Frank Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:49 AM Depends what you mean by normal. There are at least six different sets of rules for STV-PR now in use for public elections around the world. Fair enough. So they are just giving an official name to one of them then? I would

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-10 Thread Terry Bouricius
to authorize them to represent it. --- On Tue, 9/9/08, Terry Bouricius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Terry Bouricius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EM] language/framing quibble To: Fred Gohlke [EMAIL PROTECTED], election-methods@lists.electorama.com Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 4:00 PM

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-10 Thread Raph Frank
On 9/10/08, Kristofer Munsterhjelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If duplicate votes don't count, then there'll be a natural incentive to pick friends instead of central party figures. All campaigning would do would be to give whichever candidate's being promoted a lot of votes, which is no better

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-10 Thread Raph Frank
On 9/10/08, Raph Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, I would rather a friend got it than someone famous who I didn't know. The exception might be someone who did well in the previous term in office. Current legislators would count as 'famous' and in a good way. Election-Methods

[EM] language/framing quibble, and killer apps

2008-09-10 Thread Michael Allan
Raph Frank wrote: The US (and many other countries') founders had to base their new structure on something. Ideas are not as irrelevant as you seem to make out. PR-STV wouldn't have been implemented if nobody bothered to suggest it. True. I like how Max Weber qualifies it: Not ideas,

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-10 Thread Aaron Armitage
--- On Wed, 9/10/08, Terry Bouricius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Terry Bouricius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EM] language/framing quibble To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], election-methods@lists.electorama.com Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 10:20 AM Aaron makes a fundamental point about

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-09 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Raph Thank you for posting my letter. I suspect we are seeing the process differently. In my view, candidates can only stand for election in a single district and the only candidates the electorate will consider are those seeking election from their district: I'm Honest Joe,

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-09 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Raph I think that description is close to a sound system. Something not too different may be proposed in a community in England later this year. I have a draft of the petition I can send you, if you'd like to see it. Fred Election-Methods mailing list - see

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-09 Thread Raph Frank
On 9/9/08, Michael Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot take any of you seriously. Are you all suspending disbelief for the sake of the argument? I agree with your ideals, but there's an element of unreality in proposing to restructure a legislature by design. Like in Brian's

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-09 Thread Raph Frank
On 9/9/08, Fred Gohlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect we are seeing the process differently. In my view, candidates can only stand for election in a single district and the only candidates the electorate will consider are those seeking election from their district: I'm Honest Joe, and

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-09 Thread Fred Gohlke
Whoops! It was your entire post of Mon Sep 8 03:44:51 PDT 2008 I didn't cite it because I was responding to the entire post, which follows: (clip) One option is to select the legislature at random. Stratified random sampling would yield a highly representative legislature. The population

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-09 Thread Terry Bouricius
that elections may not be the key to genuinely representative democracy. Terry Bouricius - Original Message - From: Fred Gohlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [EM] language/framing quibble Whoops

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-09 Thread Raph Frank
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Fred Gohlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoops! It was your entire post of Mon Sep 8 03:44:51 PDT 2008 I didn't cite it because I was responding to the entire post, which follows: Ahh, no problem. The issue is that I have made various suggestions in recent

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