Monotonicity, but Participation too

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Mr. Cretney wrote in part-

Dear Markus,


So, is your position that it is impossible for the choice of

electoral method to affect the quality of government?  Or that we

have no hope of choosing methods that provide better government?
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D- Folks with some time might want to read The Outline of History by H.G. 
Wells (various editions 1920 to 1949).

Mr. Wells notes the possible origins of the earliest known governments and 
the developments in the last 6,000 plus years.

I note that most of them have been de facto elitist monarchial/ oligarchial 
minority rule governments (including many so-called democratic forms of 
government -- including the U.S. Congress and every State legislature in the 
U.S. due to various gerrymander systems).

Most really *democratic* (i.e. indirect majority rule) forms of government 
are based on *modern* proportional representation methods with various 
degrees of accuracy.

Democratic forms are *better* IF there are equal laws equally enforced (as 
compared to the almost continuous oppression of majorities by elitist 
minorities for the last 6,000 plus years).

See also The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke (1690).