Mr. Simmons wrote in part-
Thanks for the example Bart. I had found a similar one myself. But I'm not
convinced that the majority candidate is more democratic than the median
candidate, just as I am not convinced that the majority candidate is
better than the Approval candidate.
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On Tue , 1 May 2001, Martin Harper wrote:
Forest Simmons wrote:
I will argue in another posting that in general maximizing mean utility is
less democratic than maximizing median utility, which in turn is less
democratic than maximizing (number of voters receiving) acceptable
I should have defined democratic .
My conception of democracy is what Noam Chomsky describes as a society
in which a decent person would want to live.
In such a society, there would be lower priority for advancing the rich
(in utility) to ever greater hights, and more effort would be focused
Mr. Simmons wrote-
I should have defined democratic .
My conception of democracy is what Noam Chomsky describes as a society
in which a decent person would want to live.
In such a society, there would be lower priority for advancing the rich
(in utility) to ever greater hights, and more
Thanks for the example Bart. I had found a similar one myself. But I'm not
convinced that the majority candidate is more democratic than the median
candidate, just as I am not convinced that the majority candidate is
better than the Approval candidate.
Presumably in the example below there are
Forest Simmons wrote:
I will argue in another posting that in general maximizing mean utility is
less democratic than maximizing median utility, which in turn is less
democratic than maximizing (number of voters receiving) acceptable utility
(which corresponds to Approval).
I'm going to
