[EM] Schwartz//Tideman for meetings & small committees

[Markus Schulze]

Dear Mike,

you wrote (1 Aug 2000):
> If anyone is concerned that, in a meeting, Tideman will embarrass
> them by choosing outside the Schwartz set, they can use
> Schwartz//Tideman. But that's something that won't happen in
> public elections.
>
> Schwartz// may seem an inelegant patch, but sometimes a combination
> like that can combine advantages of 2 kinds of methods.

Does Schwartz//Tideman resp. Schwartz//MTM meet monotonicity?

I am always very sceptical when someone proposes an iterative method
or when someone proposes that candidates who could influence the
result of the elections in later steps should be eliminated.

Markus Schulze
schulze at sol.physik.tu-berlin.de
schulze at math.tu-berlin.de
markusschulze at planet-interkom.de