[EM] Query for one and all

Kevin Venzke stepjak at yahoo.fr
Mon Sep 1 16:49:02 PDT 2003


 --- Markus Schulze <markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de> a écrit : 
> Dear John B. Hodges,
> 
> you wrote (1 Sep 2003):
> > This method has been called "Generalized Bucklin", and AFAICT
> > could also be called "Majority Choice Approval". My question,
> > for one and all: Is there any desirable quality, that any
> > single-winner method has, that this method does not have?
> 
> Condorcet, Condorcet Loser, Consistency, Independence of Clones,
> Reversal Symmetry, Smith, later-no-harm, Participation.
> 
> Markus Schulze

John's definition didn't seem to allow for unused ranks, which I believe
is a necessary part of MCA.

I think MCA meets Clone Independence and Participation, but I'd like to hear
reasoning to the contrary.

Kevin Venzke
stepjak at yahoo.fr


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